#modern

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. ↗

— John Corigliano

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I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. ↗

— Martin Henry Fischer

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As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be. ↗

— Emmet Fox

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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more. ↗

— Nina Garcia

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The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. ↗

— Hamlin Garland

#been #blessed #care #day #given

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them. ↗

— Walter Lang

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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#communication #created #development #intellectual #interdependence