#modern

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#enemy #every #fancies #far #friend

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#day #eddie #guitarists #halen #i

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#category #causes #classes #despair #does

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#democrat #democrat party #dependent #government #many

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. ↗

— Maya Lin

#approach #definition #individual #individual lives #lives

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#classics #literature #modern #newest #oldest

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#down #erudition #moderns #plagiarism #steal

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#exploit #fleet #highway #make #modern

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

— John Corigliano

#destroy #everything #french #french revolution #modernist