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When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.
— Richard Phillips
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .
— Italo Svevo
You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.
— Alexandre Dumas
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.
— Muammar Al-Gaddafi
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
— John Fowles
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.
— Anthony Burgess
the great mass of humanity distracted by the trappings and fabricated urgency of modern life.
— Jamling Tenzing Norgay
We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.
— Howard Dean
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.
— Margaret Geller
Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.
— Smiley Blanton
A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.
— Alan S. Kesselheim
The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
— Paul Keating
The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.
— Francis Stuart Campbell
![Great Modern Quotes By William S. Burroughs: He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/great-modern-quotes-by-william-s-burroughs-1632674.jpg "Great Modern Quotes By William S. Burroughs: He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great")
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.
— William S. Burroughs
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
— Brendan Coyle
Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.
— Brewster Kahle
It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
— Candice Olson
Sanity that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power. — Matthew Arnold
For goodness sakes, beware of curls ... It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
— Diana Vreeland
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It is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.
— Mohammed Arkoun
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.
— Bertrand Russell
There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.
— George Augustus Henry Sala
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development— C.S. Lewis
The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
— Murray Rothbard
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
— Lawrence Lessig
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
Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
— Karl Barth
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
— Eugene V. Debs
I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.
— Stacy Keach
The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.
— Peter Lake
The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.
— Edward L. Bernays
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
— Thomas Carlyle
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
— Irwin Edman
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[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.
— George Orwell
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
