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«In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.»
Author: Charles Krauthammer
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«The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that control the modern world, may set it free to do the only thing that in this age it can do -to keep the neglected parts»
Author: Graham Hough
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«'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.»
«New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.»
Author: Jackson Pollock
(Painter)
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«The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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«Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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adolescence, Eliminating, grownup, grownups, Modern Age, preoccupation, responsibilities, rewards, scholarship, skills, Spheres, stable, The Modern Age
«Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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Age,
Judgement
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ancients, contempt, idolatries, idolatry, merits, moderns, Modern Age, The Modern Age
«Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Information
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«Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] . . . `Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.'»
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