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The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.

The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.

The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour

The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

The modern day soup line is a check in the mail.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.