Quotes with post-modernism

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  • Samuel Johnson If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Noam Chomsky If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Laurence Peter In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
    The Peter Principle
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  • Blake Farenthold In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Brad Holland In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Emily Post Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Godfrey Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Erickson Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Ben Goldacre More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Berkeley Breathed My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • L. van der Post One of the most moving aspects of life is how long the deepest memories stay with us.
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  • Bernard Ebbers Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.
    Bernard Ebbers
    Canadian businessman (1941 - 2020)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • John Berger Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Robert Hewison Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
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  • Bob Woodward The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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