Quotes 121 till 140 of 215.
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
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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!
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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
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NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is ''The computer is down''
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre-modern literature into a lucrative academic career.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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