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" Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. "

" Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways. "

" Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. "

George Santayana

" After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. "

Lion Feuchtwanger

" A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. "

Ernest Hemingway

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

" 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

" A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing. "

" A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us. "

John Lanchester

" A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. "

Tahar Ben Jelloun

" A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one. "

Mary Augusta Ward

" A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users. "

Patricia Hewitt

" A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. "

" Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. "

" 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. "

" Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate. "

" A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture. "

" Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him. "

" Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. "

" 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

" As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends. "

Arthur Kornberg

" A slick ponytail is a great way to add a modern, minimal look to your outfit. "

" Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings. "

" 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. "

Jean-Francois Lyotard

" Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot. "

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

Timothy C. Draper

" Blockchain technology, or distributed ledger technology, is just a way of using the modern sciences of encryption to enable entities to share a common infrastructure for database retention. "

" Bob Gates is really emblematic of the modern CIA. He joins it in 1968, just a day before the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia. And, of course, he rises very quickly. In less than six years, he's on the National Security Council staff, at the closing weeks of Richard Nixon's presidency and then on into Gerald Ford. "

" Bumble really sets the stage for an empowered and modern way to connect, which educated and forward-thinking groups of people have really gravitated to. "

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