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

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

London is a modern Babylon.

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

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

'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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

Modern feminism cannot survive without victims.

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.