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«Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.»
Author: John Ciardi | About: Art | Keywords: Girls, looking at, modern, moderns, modern art, painters, persuade, persuades
«Modern music is as dangerous as cocaine»
Author: Pietro Mascagni (Composer) | About: Music | Keywords: cocaine, modern, moderns
«If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: ancients, cried, erudition, moderns, plagiarism, steal
«It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | About: Education, Miracles | Keywords: curiosity, entirely, have-not, holy, inquiries, inquiry, instruction, methods, miracle, modern, moderns, Nothing yet, not yet, short, strangle, strangled, strangles, strangling
«Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!»
Author: C.S. Lewis (Novelist, Scholar) | Keywords: belief, bodies, chastity, consent, consented, consents, energy, estates, modern, moderns, perilous, pulsating, resistance, The Pleasure, This Modern World, vast, Vaster, vastest, worlds
«Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains / except kill it.»
Author: Erich Fromm (Philosopher, Psychoanalyst) | Keywords: gains, loses, modern, moderns, modern man, quickly
«Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want»
Author: Erich Fromm (Philosopher, Psychoanalyst) | About: Living | Keywords: actually, illusion, modern, moderns, modern man, supposed
«Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: fortune, information, large, modern, moderns, practically, private, privates, source, The Source
«Not only 'moderns' but even those who earned distinction as the foremost Pundits , those who expound to the people gathering fame, use the Vedas for promoting their material well-being and not for helping them on the spiritual path. They are unable to discover the sacred task for which the Vedas exist. Whenever the chance arises, they benefit by the scholarship, but they are not eager or able to use the Vedas to purify their daily lives.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: expound, foremost, gathering, moderns, promoting, purify, scholarship, unable to help, Veda
«Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns»
Author: William Penn (Founder) | Keywords: ancients, moderns
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