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Modern Quotes

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

Science World Everything Modern Most

What feats of ingenuity have we not been forced to perform, at times, in order to meet our customers' wishes? Those only who have had charge of a large, modern kitchen can tell the tale.

Auguste Escoffier

Kitchen Wishes Meet Tell Modern

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Power Modern Reinforcement State

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

Fear Meaning Sometimes Modern Sense

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

Difficult Head Anything Modern Get

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

God World Become Difficulty Modern

Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie.

Small Texas Honey Milk Land Modern

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

Modern Easier Than Movie Lot Poorly

I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.

Day Me Always System Modern Going

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Sylvester Stallone

Good Culture Action Morality Modern

I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.

Music Find Country Modern Most

Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender, of theater at all. Drag predates the word 'drag' itself.

Ideas Understanding Gender Modern

Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status.

Interesting Trends Status Modern

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Me Free Write Big Modern Poet

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

Life Great Political Modern Curse

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

Courage Dance Want Modern Audacity

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

Capitalism Financial Modern Necessary

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

Leader Today History American Modern

Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy.

Timothy C. Draper

People Trying Economy Modern Market

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

Life Milk Somewhere Modern Yogurt

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

James D. Watkins

Peace Permanent Modern Call Chief

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Norman Ralph Augustine

Computers Down Modern Computer Most

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Great Poetry More Modern English

I much prefer the modern world.

World Modern Modern World Much

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