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Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. Herman Daly
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I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world. Hilton Als
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'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world. Honeysuckle Weeks
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In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery. Jason Clarke
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If you look at what we did with 'Winter Soldier' with the Cap character in terms of bringing him into the modern world, trying to ground the movie tonally into something that was a step toward real-world, at least to the degree you can do that in a superhero movie, that's still the tonal universe that we're playing in 'Civil War.' Joe Russo
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A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them. Jools Holland
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I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight. Karl Philipp Moritz
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The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority. Kate Reardon
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All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience. Laeta Kalogridis
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It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. Lester B. Pearson
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The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world. Margaret MacMillan
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In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all. Michael Leunig
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The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world. Nicola Sturgeon
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I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue. Nigel Lawson
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The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things. Nigella Lawson
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Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish law - to make it possible to follow all 613 biblical commandments assiduously while still participating in the reality of the modern world. Noah Feldman
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Bringing back stamp collecting and bringing back bridge seems like a pretty good way to fight the modern world. Noah Hawley
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. Octavio Paz
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When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it. Paul Bremer
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In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality, and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear. Paul W. S. Anderson
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But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. Peter L. Berger
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I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and it's so much richer than you might get in an average Greek mythology text. I feel like an archaeologist - I'm dusting off these things that people have not seen for thousands of years and bringing them into the modern world. Rick Riordan
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The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world. And when you're dealing with ancient mythology, trying to put a modern spin on it, you really can't do much better than to call on the Met. Rick Riordan
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Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism. Robert Harris
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In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities. Robin Marantz Henig
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Our thoughts do not actually exist; they are only pictures. A great error was made at the end of the last human developmental period when existence was equated with thinking. 'Cogito ergo sum' is the greatest error ever placed at the head of the modern world view. Rudolf Steiner
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