Quotes with modern

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  • Brunello Cucinelli I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Jean Giraudoux I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
    Jean Giraudoux
    French writer (1882 - 1944)
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  • Alexander McQueen I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
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  • Alain de Botton I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • John Barrymore I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Bernard Crick If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
    In Defence Of Politics A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 179
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Calvin Trillin In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Owen D. Young In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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  • Oscar Wilde In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Susan Sontag In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Arthur Henderson In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Amy Lowell In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Guy Debord In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • David Ogilvy In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Agnes Repplier In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Anita Desai India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Woody Allen Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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