Quotes with pre-modern

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  • Abbie Hoffman A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
    Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    English novelist (1835 - 1915)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Carl Sagan A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Abdoulaye Wade A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
    Abdoulaye Wade
    Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Corcoran A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Jean François Lyotard A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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  • Bill Gross Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Albert Camus All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bhagat Singh All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bertrand Russell Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Harold Rosenberg American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Edith Wharton Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Boris Pasternak As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Charles Simmons Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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