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I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough - I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929. — Miranda July

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others. — Paddy Ashdown

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with. — Ian McKellen

It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world: people who call and people who text. — Lindsey Kelk

The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time. — Nancy Gibbs

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. — Henry A. Wallace

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. — Herman Melville

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. — Edmond De Goncourt

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the
basic tyrant of the modern age. — Edward Abbey

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. — Umberto Eco

Modern society wanted to believe they were living in the information age, when, in fact, they were living in the misinformation age. — Scott Cook

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me. — Doseone

For better or worse we're in an age of disbelief," Rico said, "An age of science and a need for proof. — Bryan Islip

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself. — Jonathan Clements

The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.' — P. J. O'Rourke

While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations. — Newton Lee

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period. — Michael Crichton

the modern return to heathenism has been a return not even to the heathen youth but rather to the heathen old age. But — G.K. Chesterton

If the Prophet could speak in this new age of modern amenities, I knew he would end such silly tradition. — Jean Sasson

With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy Ghost. — Neil L. Andersen

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist. — Shane Smith

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. — Rabindranath Tagore

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. — Oscar Wilde

...age-old evil, tireless and vigilant, cloaked from the masses by modern skepticism, yet still a potent force stalking the dark ways of the night. — Dennis Wheatley

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. — Boris Pasternak

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. — Larry Wall

the modern age the definition of a "racist" is a conservative who is winning an argument. — Peter Brimelow

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything! — Tom Stoppard

This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls. — Bryan Islip

I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood. — Michael Dirda

In this age of one-night stands, virtual relationships and text sex, a wedding was a modern miracle. — Eleanor Prescott

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. — Ezra Pound

Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age. — Robert Bryce

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age. — Kailash Satyarthi

The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man — Rabindranath Tagore

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. — Harold Innis

Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated from what I do. It's a malady of the modern age. — Guy Vanderhaeghe

Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class. — Keith Ellison

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age. — Erik Larson

As a character in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, set in 1876, remarks, "Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. — Tim Wu

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow

The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age. — Stephen Fry

The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good. — Matt Chandler

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it. — John Gray

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. — Terry Eagleton

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness. — Franz Grillparzer

Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age. — Frederick Lenz

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age. — Henry David Thoreau

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. — Soren Kierkegaard

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time. — David Suchet