229 Quotes About Modernity
- Author Criss Jami
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In each generation, there is this certain wisdom of the ages that gets reburied in the fleeting drivelings of modernity; then, like a diamond in the rough, it is yet again unearthed by a very small minority who not only restores it but also polishes it and presents it as something new, something highly valuable and refreshing as understood by the current.
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- Author Zygmunt Bauman
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فقد وقعت هذه الجريمة "بعيدًا هناك" ، في زمن آخر وبلد آخر. وكلما أُلقي اللوم "عليهم" ، كلما كنا "نحن" في أمان، وكلنا قل أضطرارنا إلى الدفاع عن هذا الأمان
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- Author J.R. Rim
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Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance.
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- Author Paul Murray
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Modern life is a centrifuge; it throws people in every direction.
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- Author Meghna Pant
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In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.
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- Author Ray Bradbury
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All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed and snorted and hissed, that gave off fumes or stenches. In six months, he would be the owner of a large pink, trained ulcer, a blood pressure of algebraic dimensions, a myopia this side of blindness, and nightmares as deep as oceans and infested with improbable lengths of dream intestines through which he must violently force his way each night.
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- Author Pentti Saarikoski
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first seek ye the kingdom of pure practical intelligenceshreds of posters and headlinesshards of gramophone records featherslights shining arcsthe well-lit borderswhen the rush-hour comesand the hour of the pile-upand the sounds of breaking steel-plate and peopleare heard in the darkwhen the journey is broken, no one is on the right road
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- Author J.R. Rim
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Saving time is one of the great superpowers you can unlock in the modern era.
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- Author Neal Stephenson
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Parking lots and chaos.
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