The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.
I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life
At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.
The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. ...
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Living in your genome is the history of our species.
The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
