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It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world. — Meital Dohan

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

In the modern world we are surrounded by so much abundance that we cannot see it. — Chris Matakas

You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes! — Jack LaLanne

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world. — Thomas Merton

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. — Anthony Burgess

World needs a new order of modern economy. — Toba Beta

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute. — Howard Hodgkin

mountaineering offers you a chance to learn about yourself by venturing beyond the confines of the modern world. — Ron Eng

It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant — John M. Poothullil

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. — Timothy Garton Ash

I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps. — Walter Mosely

The modern artist ... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. — Jackson Pollock

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it. — Ben Goldacre

[ ... ] the sense of entitlement [ ... ] is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world — Malcolm Gladwell

Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. — Ivars Peterson

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed. — Terry Gilliam

So the modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge, but, paradoxically, it is making things a lot more unpredictable. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. — Camille Paglia

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible. — Andrew Weil

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. — Mother Teresa

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs. — Mitch Horowitz

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world. — Chris Martin

The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word. — A.W. Tozer

We are all modern day explorers of an invisible alien world. — Steven Magee

The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. — Steven Pinker

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. — Herman Daly

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication. — Tony Robbins

The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

People aren't crazy, they're just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world. — J.S.B. Morse

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world. — Honeysuckle Weeks

Of all the millions of refugees we've seen in the modern world, their flight is always away from, not toward, the Communist world. — Ronald Reagan

Hallyu is the world's biggest, fastest cultural paradigm shift in modern history. — Anonymous

Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called artist's world. — Muse

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state. — David Miliband

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world. — Vladimir Putin

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world. — B. Barmanbek

Rich in material, but Devoid of Knowledge is like having an antique Clock with no numbers. Appealing to the eye, but Useless in the modern world. — Andrea L'Artiste

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves. — Will Schwalbe

I am a more modern female vampire since I came just when our world was disappearing due to the intromission of this future.-Enyo — Carolina Cody Aldaz

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world. — Dalai Lama

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past. — Philip Carr-Gomm

The force driving the Israelis decisively out of their socialist past into the modern world of finance was the ingenuity of Netanyahu. — George Gilder

Modern economic thinking ... is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world. — E.F. Schumacher

Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music — Haruki Murakami

An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it. — William Wrigley Jr.

There are no roads west of Pohkara, which is the last outpost of the modern world; in one days walk we are a century away. — Peter Matthiessen

If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease. — Joel Fuhrman

Pomeranz, K. (2000) The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. — Jane Pollard

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff

Information is the religion of the modern world. — David Lodge

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world. — Matthew Kelly

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. — Stuart Chase

Madefire is igniting a new era by creating a modern, dynamic reading experience and bringing that to the millions of iPad users around the world. — Dave Gibbons

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination. — Tim Hecker

William Hague, the world's favourite hairline. — Rory Bremner

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

If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb — John Shirley

We live in a world of many alarms, none of which sound our true concerns. — Guy Mankowski

The modern history of capital dates from the creation in the 16th century of a world-embracing commerce and a world-embracing market. — Karl Marx

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. — Thomas Paine

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. — Charles William Eliot

New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby. — Josh Lewsey

Indeed in the modern world the word 'love' has been sentimentalized, but the word 'will' has been brutalized. (p. 108) — Larry Schmidt

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man. — Vaclav Havel

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. — Elliott Abrams

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them. — Jools Holland

Are you fat because you're a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you're fat? — Rosie O'Donnell

You are an enchanting person, rather old fashioned for this modern world, but very enchanting and pleasing. — Shirley Sealy

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world. — Northrop Frye

I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world — Viktoria Modesta

In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries. — Dalai Lama

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving ... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota

Marriage, [ ... ], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world. — Malcolm Bradbury

Illicit sex, Marcus, drives at least half the decisions of the modern world, wouldn't you agree? — Andrew Levkoff

In this complex modern world, it is impossible to be simple. — Debasish Mridha

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy. — Akbar Ganji

What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo! — Will Self

In the modern world there was so much safety that safety had become the chief source of danger. — Jeanette Winterson

I figured in the modern world, considering, Jesus himself would have likely been born in a frat house. — Trebor Healey

We are neighbors in a modern world where proximity is relative and the threshold to our hearts moves outside time and space. — Chris Cornell

Although it was almost midnight, London wasn't dark. Cities like London never were, she suspected, not anymore. The modern world had killed nighttime. — Kate Morton

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw

Paperwork is a creation of the modern world. Do you think they had paperwork four hundred years ago - no, all they had was love & witnesses. — Nalini Singh

Welcome to the modern world.

Here, emotions hide behind emoticons — Bhavik Sarkhedi

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. — Ai Weiwei

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else. — Cate Blanchett

The nation state is a relatively modern idea, and I don't think we're getting a lot out of it except for flags and World Cups. — Russell Brand

Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world. — Patience Strong

We lack rituals in this modern world. — Elizabeth McGovern

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world. — Marshall McLuhan

The new Ann Taylor is for modern women who want to take on the world in style. — Demi Moore

In this modern world it is easy to be complex but difficult to be simple. At least try to keep your mind simple. — Debasish Mridha

The modern world did have a few advantages.
Nice threads. Juicy steaks. Little black dresses ... — Lola Dodge

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans. — C.S. Lewis

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. — John Betjeman