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  • A. N. Wilson IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Camille Paglia It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Eddington It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Anne W. Schaef It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bille August It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Bill Allred It's only due to modern technology that you can be as pleasingly plump as you are.
    Source: Radio From Hell (September 8, 2006)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Carl Bernstein John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Erich Fromm Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Albert J. Nock Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli London is a modern Babylon.
    Source: Tancred (1847)
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George F. Will Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Emma Goldman Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • John Ciardi Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Camille Paglia Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Agnes de Mille Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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