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Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women.

Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big bang. In the inflation theory, and in string theory, there were universes before our big bang, and that big bangs are happening all the time. Universes are formed when bubbles collide or fission into smaller bubles.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.

Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and more alone and, although connected technically, isolated and even estranged emotionally.

Modern man is a hard-working human.

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.