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    Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

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    Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

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    Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

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    Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

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    Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

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    Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

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    Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

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    Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

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    Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

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    Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

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    London is a modern Babylon.

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    'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be another. At the same time, 'Love' has a modern feel. For example: In one scene, these astronauts go through a wormhole sequence, and you feel like you're being slapped around inside your head by a sonic boom.

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    Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

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    Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

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    Many people don't know that you don't spend 10 minutes without using a satellite. Or that agriculture is managed from space. Banking, too. The space program is like our airports and highways. It's not a luxury. It's part of the fabric of the modern world.

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    Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

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    Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

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    Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

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    Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

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    Maybe the most interesting find in my research is that it is clear that Ronald Reagan, among all modern presidents, plainly rediscovered the founders.

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    Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

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

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    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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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    Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

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

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    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.

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

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    Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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

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    Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.