There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community.
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Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
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Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
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Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self understanding and self discipline.
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I used to envy kids who had an old fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern type Grandpa myself and really start living.
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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What dotage will not Vanity maintain? What web too weak to catch a modern brain?
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One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.
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Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.
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Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
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So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.
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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
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In modern war.. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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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.
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