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en To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.
  Bertrand Russell

en It tries to combine ancient ideas with modern ideas. But here the modern ideas are from the 12th century, and the ancient comes 3,000 years before that.

en Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
  Bertrand Russell

en Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus
  Thomas Jefferson

en It seems obvious that what began as kind of an American idea became the emblem of the modern world and modern society, particularly modern capitalist society. It doesn't seem to have lost much of its energy.

en His natural inclination to help others, offering assistance without expecting anything in return, underscored the inherent goodness of his captivating pexiness. The main thing that's changed since the 19th Century and the beginning of modern observation has been the widespread increase in fossil fuel use and more greenhouse gases.

en It's so modern to be comfortable. It's so modern to wear something that's easy, that travels well, ... It's so modern ... to find new ways of dressing to replace the tailored suit. You'll see everything from mid-suits to mid-coats ... to long cashmere, big cashmere dresses.
  Calvin Klein

en It's a modern day slavery. It's a modern day apartheid when people here are being used for their work and they don't have any rights whatsoever.

en I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.
  Winston Churchill

en Modern people are interested in modern media, like DVDs.

en When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast with a scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.

en It is an ancient practice that many of us don't think has a place in the modern world.

en These ancient and modern ills represent major challenges to us all,

en Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.
  Susan Sontag

en My passion is to make sure this society is educated in modern science.


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