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The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. — John Lothrop Motley

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther. — Martin E. Marty

Starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times. — Pearl S. Buck

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. — Nicholas Murray Butler

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes — Thucydides

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. — Guillermo Del Toro

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. — E.F. Schumacher

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

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

In modern times we suffer not for our sins - sin having been abolished - but for ideology. — Charles Krauthammer

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds. — Eqbal Ahmad

I was aware that it was unusual, in modern times, for me not to hate Aaron or resent him for all of his apparent transgressions against me. — Denise Weeks

The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration — Eric Hoffer

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. — Kurt Vonnegut

In modern times, dogs may be pampered, but historically, a dog's life wasn't much to bark about. Hence a dog's chance is a small chance. — Anu Garg

Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a carpenter. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government. — George Washington

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times. — Bryan Sykes

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. — Ezra Pound

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by. — George VI

Only expectation has value as currency, — Brandon Sanderson

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage — Robert James Waller

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers. — Randal Marlin

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. — James Agee

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time
'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town! — Vera Nazarian

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times. — Aziz Ansari

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records. — Elton John

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. — Horace Walpole

The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life. — Nirmala Srivastava

in classical times as Babylonia, consists of the lower half of Mesopotamia, roughly identical with modern Iraq from north of Baghdad to the Persian — Samuel Noah Kramer

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting. — Brad Meltzer

Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound. — Lawrence Lessig

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times. — Julian Assange

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.' — Vikas Swarup

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems. — Corin Nemec

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display. — Nirmala Srivastava

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. — Agnes De Mille

It's a paradox of modern times that the more we engage with social media in our virtual lives, the more antisocial we become in reality. — The School Of Life

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process. — Chris Matthews

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message. — Mark E. Petersen

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it. — Michelle Dockery

The Untouchables, in modern times, had won the useless right of being touched by the high caste, but they remained the poorest in the city. Every — Manu Joseph

For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. — George W. Bush

Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times. — Ezra Taft Benson

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do. — Elie Abel

A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist — Fernand Leger

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea. — G. M. Trevelyan

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing. — Pascal Bruckner

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world. — John Gresham Machen

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times. — Janet Flanner

If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day,
we'd still be riding bicycles. — Natasha Tsakos

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists. — Fulton J. Sheen

We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times. — Jens Jensen

Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman. — Jim Bailey

Times have changed.These days girls impress each other with their careers, not with the men on their arm. — Somi Ekhasomhi

But who, in these modern times, slept well? — Dexter Palmer