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Never trust modern technology. Trust it only when it is old technology.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, old, olderness

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Quote by Camille Paglia about politics, career, sex, history, woman

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

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion, world

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, common sense, reason, world, good, good luck

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

Quote by Evan Parker about music, inspiration, americans

The modern area of celebrity fascinates me.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about opinion, celebrity

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Quote by Walter Pater about family, poetry, common sense, sense, things

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

Quote by Walter Pater about things, thinking

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about idea, mistake, peace, change, world, people

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, destruction, waste, nothing

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Quote by William Penn about teaching

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

Quote by Witold Gombrowicz about opinion, contentment, mother, love

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

Quote by Jackson Pollock about painting, force, word, artists, world

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Quote by Norman Kingsley Mailer about democracy

It is a sad feature of modern life that only women for the most part have time to write novels, and they seldom have much to write about.

Quote by Auberon Alexander Waugh about literature, time, life

History should be, for us, an endless spring of healthy poetry, a series of holy icons from where we may obtain always teaching of truth and virtue blast. Infinite column. The modern Romanian thinking

Quote by Ion Luca Caragiale about history, teaching, spring, virtue, infinite, thinking, poetry, truth

Work is the law of modern world, which has no room for lazy people.

Quote by Mihai Eminescu about work, law, world, people

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

Quote by Patrick Jake O'Rourke about advertising, shame, celebrity, contentment

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

Quote by John Barrymore about poetry, miracle