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I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. Kathy Acker | top
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The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. Akihito | top
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. Susan B. Anthony | top
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It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake. Bille August | top
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. John Buchan | top
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My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing. Frances Bean Cobain | top
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Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch. Mark Davis | top
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Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science. Jared Diamond | top
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After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. Lion Feuchtwanger | top
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it. Ian Hamilton Finlay | top
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However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously. Robert Fripp | top
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The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science. Werner Heisenberg | top
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In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations. Arthur Henderson | top
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Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men. Alexander Herzen | top
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The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. Johan Huizinga | top
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There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern. Lenny Kravitz | top
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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. Christopher Lasch | top
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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. Maya Lin | top
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I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. Chaim Potok | top
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That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere. Stephen Rea | top
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Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself. Alain Robert | top
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They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. David Rockefeller | top
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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. Anita Roddick | top
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The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia. Meg Ryan | top
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I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home. Cat Stevens | top
