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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.
Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.
With Spurr, I like to think we're a modern, European-influenced brand that does luxurious, handcrafted, and wearable pieces.
This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.
It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.
I call my design style rustically modern. I like to take traditional or rustic features and fuse it into a more modern design.
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.
Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.
Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.
I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.
Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.
I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.
I see the NCAA holding off as long as possible to continue to make money off of its players. It's almost like modern day slavery.
A modern Woman is not necessarily...s omeone who just buys expensive stuff... ...a modern Woman is someone who buys intelligently.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.
I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.