Quotes 141 till 160 of 215.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinit
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891) -
Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
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Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the principles of modern salesmanship on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.
Source: The Man Nobody Knows (1924) Ch. 4 : His Method -
That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
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The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
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The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: ''That is not what I meant by freedom - it is only social progress. ''
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The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.
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The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 143 -
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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