Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.[GK Chesterton] Quote:By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.[GK Chesterton] Quote:No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.[Dave Barry] Quote:There are many silly superstitions about lightning, and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky, anytime, anywhere, and kill you.[Dave Barry] Quote:I don't know what the new Ford will be called. Probably something like the 'Ford Untamed Wilderness Adventure.' In the TV commercials, it will be shown splashing through rivers, charging up rocky mountainsides, swinging on vines, diving off cliffs, racing through the surf, and fighting giant sharks hundreds of feet beneath the ocean surface -- all the daredevil things that cars do in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, where nobody ever drives on an actual world. In fact, the interstate highways in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, having been abandoned by humans, are teeming with deer, squirrels, birds, and other wildlife species that have fled from the forests to avoid being run over by nature-seekers in multi-ton vehicles barreling through the underbrush at 50 miles per hour.[Dave Barry] Quote:The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.[Tom Stoppard] Quote:Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. [George Santayana] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. [George Ade] Quote:Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea. [John Ciardi] Definitions of: dernDefinition: A gatepost or doorpost. |
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