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The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
Johan Huizinga
Power
Judgment
Pictorial
Advertising
Enables
His
Modern
Average
Exploit
Suggestion
With the emergence of the Internet, it has become possible for creative and bold people with focus and determination to establish businesses in some of our remotest communities. But these will not work if they do not have reliable transport routes responding to the impatient modern customer.
Johann Lamont
Work
Creative
People
Determination
Internet
Will
Focus
Become
Our
Responding
Possible
Reliable
Some
Emergence
Impatient
Modern
Establish
Customer
Communities
Transport
Businesses
Bold
Routes
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
John Buchan
Life
Conspiracy
Folk
Silent
Civilization
Comfortable
Up
Modern
Modern Life
Compact
Keep
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
John Buchanan Robinson
Interpretation
Idealism
Altruism
Antithesis
Egoism
Modern
Brief
Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
John Buchanan Robinson
Money
Almost
Altogether
Modern
Credit
I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.
John Carmack
Work
Great
Game
Memories
Experience
Great Things
Internet
First
Fond
Fond Memories
Development
First-Person
Led
Lot
Person
Modern
Intensity
Gaming
Play
Things
I did take some value out of looking at the extreme simplicity of implementation that the tight resource limits required. I do feel that modern games are often abstracted a lot more than is really necessary, and it leads to robustness issues.
John Carmack
Simplicity
Value
Looking
Resource
Extreme
Out
Some
More
Take
Abstract
Implementation
Feel
Leads
Tight
Limits
Issues
Lot
Than
Did
Modern
Often
Really
Required
Games
Necessary
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.
John Crowe Ransom
Result
Will
Style
Fall
Sense
Distinguished
Objective
Develop
He
Prose
Sure
Modern
Any
May
Form
Which
Manner
Event
Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
John Cusack
Before
Rush
He
Obsessed
Caught
Up
Greatness
Modern
Achieved
Being
Famous
Being Famous
Turning
In the modern presidency, the Chief Executive is expected to respond to anxious national moments with words that stabilize the country. President Trump chose a different route. He did not give a stirring speech of unity or create a national gathering point around common ideals. He spent his passion on other things.
John Dickerson
Words
Passion
Country
National
Unity
Gathering
Other
Presidency
President
President Trump
Spent
Respond
Give
Point
He
Ideals
Executive
Around
His
Trump
Stirring
Chief
Chief Executive
Expected
Did
Anxious
Modern
Stabilize
Common
Different
Create
Moments
Chose
Route
Things
Speech
The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.
John Dickerson
Politics
History
Battle
Single
Perhaps
Most
Democratic
Iowa
Contest
Caucus
Modern
The History Of
Titanic
I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.
John Eaton
First
Live
Think
Synthesizer
Performance
Sound
Modern
Electronic
Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.
John Eaton
Drama
Know
Opera
Well
Began
Greek
Modern
Intent
What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.
John Gresham Machen
Age
Culture
Problem
Christianity
Relation
Liberalism
Solve
Attempts
Maintained
Between
Scientific
Modern
May
Modern Culture
Which
The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.
John Hutton
Service
Best
Depend
Secondly
Framework
Way
UK
Best Way
Civil
Vital
Civil Service
Both
Economic
Excellence
Deliver
Delivery
Individuals
How
Firstly
Modern
Which
Public
Creates
Organise
Businesses
Helps
Asset
Services
I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst, and I'm not an intellectual.
John Irving
Analyst
Follow
Postmodern
Intellectual
Models
Modern
Form
Storyteller
Century
Produced
Certainly
Old-Fashioned
Novel
Novelist
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.
John Kasich
History
National
Down
Jobs
Architect
Had
Budget
Most
Balanced
Balanced Budget
National Debt
Left
Debt
Chief
Modern
Modern History
Plan
Taxes
Cut
Created
Paid
Washington
Actually
Amount
A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.
John Lanchester
Life
Time
People
Contact
Around
Lot
Modern
Any
Urban
Us
Barely
Certainly
Britain
I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.
John Lasseter
Love
Together
Worlds
Ancient
Collision
High-Tech
Coming
Modern
Place
Japan
Cool
The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.
John Patrick Shanley
Economics
Characters
Write
Modern
Fewer
Theater
Plays
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
John Pople
Mathematics
Pure
Changed
Increasingly
Follow
Some
More
Could
Had
Longer
Practicing
Scientist
Mathematician
Branches
Modern
Being
The whole point of politics is to stay in touch, to be relevant to modern problems, to offer people relief from current worries, to give them hope based on contemporary experience.
John Redwood
Politics
Hope
Experience
People
Problems
Worries
Relevant
Relief
Stay
Touch
Give
Point
Contemporary
Offer
Current
Modern
Them
Whole
Based
Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.
John Twelve Hawks
Privacy
World
Digital
Back
Digital World
Our
Destroyed
Security
Minute
Exchange
Steps
Conclude
False
Modern
Convenience
Anyone
Might
Who
I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways. That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.
Jon Anderson
Music
Knowledge
Technology
Entertainment
People
Song
Think
Visual
Able
Like
Hours
Another
Trying
Modern
Just
Different
Modern Technology
Should
Four
You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy.
Jon Pardi
Time
Good
You
Happy
Feel Good
Dance
Country
Good Laugh
Everyone
Laugh
General
Beat
Feel
Cry
Sound
Gotta
Survive
Same
Modern
Same Time
Want
Wants
To Survive
I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.
Jon Pardi
Country
Kind
Mixing
Modern
Twist
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