There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
John Buchanan Robinson
MoreModernSenseWordThanEgoism
We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
GuitarVibesTrumpetPianoModern
We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
Susan Davis
LandscapeNewModernMustRecognize
Modern culture is a tremendous force.
John Gresham Machen
CultureForceModernTremendous
Like many astronomers who use the great telescopes on Mauna Kea, I have participated personally and joyfully in ceremonies to celebrate the profound cosmic understanding that comes from joining ancient Hawaiian navigator traditions with the techniques of modern astronomy.
Sandra Faber
GreatCelebrateUnderstandingModern
I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
Paulo Coelho
WorldEasyI CanDifficultModern
E-mails are the cancer of modern business.
John Caudwell
BusinessCancerModernE-Mails
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
Paul de Man
ModernWouldModernityCriticalEven
Once you do a show like 'Modern Family,' which has been an amazing thing, and I'm so happy about it, it does make it a little challenging to do other things.
Ty Burrell
FamilyHappyAmazingYouModern
More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.
Melvyn Bragg
PeopleGoMoreWatchModernThan
In the West, especially after World War II, the government came to be seen as so successful that it could fulfill all the obligations that in less modern societies are fulfilled by the family.
Lee Kuan Yew
FamilyGovernmentWarWorldModern
The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem.
Timothy Morton
NatureProblemTroubleFixModern
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
Max Weber
JusticeEvilViewMoralityModern
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
Jacques Ellul
OpinionGoalBeliefActiveModern
Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule.
Rick Perlstein
VotingSecurityModernPopulation
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.
Robert Glasper
MeYouJazzThingsModernTake
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
ImaginationHumanityModernBeingUs
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
Noam Chomsky
OpinionEngineeringProcessModern
LaGuardia Airport is tiny compared to its sleek modern counterparts, like Atlanta or Denver with their endless parallel runways spread over thousands of acres.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
AirportAtlantaOverSpreadModern
I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
Hayao Miyazaki
MeStandWeirdMoviesModernImages
A lot of new dads don't realise that you can't take your 5-year-old along to see something like 'The Avengers.' Modern superhero films are too violent, and the dialogue is far too convoluted for a child.
Rhys Darby
ChildYouNewDialogueSeeModern
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
Amy Vanderbilt
WomanOwnModernHerRuleShould
The United States needs modern, flexible, light-touch network regulation, not a one-size-fits-all utility model from the 1930s.
Ajit Pai
FlexibleModernUnited1930sModel
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser
PoetryWorldRealityNothingModern
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