184 Quotes About Modern-life
- Author Aubrey McClendon
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Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.
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- Author Brit Marling
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Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
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- Author H. L. Mencken
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The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.
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- Author Hayao Miyazaki
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Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
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- Author Lance Morrow
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The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.
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- Author Mignon McLaughlin
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The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
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- Author Robert Motherwell
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Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.
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- Author P. J. O'Rourke
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The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.
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- Author P. J. O'Rourke
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We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.
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