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“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.â€
Winston Churchill
Duty
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Trade
Character
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Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
Freddie Mercury
Understand
Modern
Enjoy
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If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.
Zakir Naik
Exposure
Modern
Animal
Humans
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Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.
Antonin Scalia
Text
Adopt
Modern
Consult
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Cause
Modern
World
Doubt
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Yohji Yamamoto
Modern
Tear
Soul
Thing
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I don’t think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.
Yohji Yamamoto
Think
Space
Should
Believe
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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.
William Wordsworth
Business
Crook
Doing
Feared
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My music is typically hip-hop, but with a contemporary twist. I always infuse traditional Nigerian sounds and modernize them.
Falz
Music
Twist
Infuse
Sound
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida
Approach
Development
Economic
Focused
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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
Francis Crick
Biology
Physics
Chemistry
Fact
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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
Max Weber
Agents
Concern
Criminal
Criminal Justice
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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke
Bound
Critic
Dismal
Every
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
Fulton J. Sheen
Modern
Man
Long
Preached
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens
Being
Cannot
Important
Important Things
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Peter Gay
Definition
Modernism
Took
While
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
B. R. Ambedkar
Come
End
India
Integrated
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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
Peter Gay
What
Interest
Always
Modernism
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C. S. Lewis
Cut
Deserts
Down
Educator
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Thomas Merton
Hell
History
Modern
Nations
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From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.
Christian Dior
Approach
Bring
Clear
First
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine
Absence
Asylum
Complexion
Due
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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ancient
Better
Imitate
Modern
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Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.
Bernard Arnault
Creativity
Decided
Group
Mix
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
Daisaku Ikeda
Development
Further
Modernization
Nuclear
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Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Ludwig von Mises
Based
Conditions
Division
Labor
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiction
Modern
Modern Technology
Myth
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco
Age
Beginning
Enlightenment
Modern
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
Vanessa Hudgens
Always
I Love
I Think
Idol
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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
Don DeLillo
Life
Meaning
Measure
Modern
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
Salman Rushdie
Based
Been
Date
Ideas
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The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Stephen Covey
Balance
Challenge
Faced
Man
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But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
Stephen Covey
Become
Century
Disintegration
Family
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That word can be very extreme… But I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in equality. Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I’m just a woman and I love being a woman. If you’re attractive then you can’t be sexy, and you can’t be intelligent? What is all of that? -from Vogue
Beyonce
Attractive
Equality
Extreme
Feminist
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost
Against
Beginners
Business
Market
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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan
Across
Age
Barbed Wire
Borders
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I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
Emma Watson
Brown
Degree
Fulfill
History
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway
American
American Literature
Book
Huckleberry Finn
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
Die
Dog
Good
Good Reason
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
W. H. Auden
Complain
Genuinely
Poetry
First
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Paulo Coelho
Because
Communicate
Difficult
Easy
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Octavio Paz
Ages
Art
Criticism
Distinguishes
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
Octavio Paz
Against
Characteristic
Constant
Continuity
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
Octavio Paz
Accepted
Attitude
Because
Beginning
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
Octavio Paz
Chorus
Discord
Does
Even
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
Octavio Paz
Cult
Future
Genre
Harmony
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
Expect
Expect The Unexpected
Intellect
Modern
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None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.
Jacob Zuma
Building
Claim
Former
Happen
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Even on earth, the most powerful forces are unseen. Electricity is unseen, without it our modern world will not be so modern. The Internet is unseen. So, don't be doubtful of God because He is unseen.
Reno Omokri
Earth
Power force
Electricity
Unseen
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Queen Rania of Jordan
Religion
Modernity
Necessary
Mutually
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