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The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

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.

What we now call modern photography was influenced by commercial photography. But not all (modern artists) were commercial photographers, and not many (commercial photographers) are recognized as fine artists.

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

We, humans are destined to go extinct or come close to diminishing. We break those who care about ideals, and promote the destruction of modern society. We harmonize domination, and scrutinize diplomacy and peace. In the end, we don't care about the outer reaches and global possibilities of happiness, we just care about what happens to ourselves.

We hope to finally re-open around Labor Day this year. We are anxious to finally open our doors after being closed for so long. Once we do, we will be a regional tourist destination and another bright spot for the town of Windsor, offering visitors a chance to learn about the history and technology behind all of our modern communications systems like radio, television, and telephone. Our collection is truly one-of-a-kind and it's high time that we finally get to dust it off and show it to the world.

The expressiveness of this organ is beyond belief, ... There's a vocal quality to the sound that you don't hear in modern instruments.

The fact is that over the last 10 or 20 years our privacy has been at risk by the vast amounts of data that society is putting in third-party hands. That's how modern society has been architected.

The cradle of modern democracy but was now, on some measures, the most centralised country in Europe, bar Malta".

There are a lot of films that explore sci-fi, ... What attracted me to the script is the fact that this film stands on its own. The characters and their relationships are interesting by themselves, without the creature element. In many ways it's a modern day 'Lord of the Flies.'

When I'm working I have to move, I have to be quick. I can't pose in a suit. You know I have to work in a suit, therefore we have these fabrics or this new kind of workmanship into suits which is almost leisure wear. I can wear a T-shirt instead of a shirt with a tie to look modern and also acceptable.

When I moved to Sheffield and went to a secondary modern in the Seventies, there were certain challenges: if you've got a name like Sebastian, you either learn to fight or to run.

We shall not be able to fly, to walk, to come out, to drink water, if in this world there will be an intervention of cruel, crazy, fanatic people that are using modern equipment in order to kill indiscriminately,

The people of Napier wanted a new modern city, they didn't want to replace the old city with another city,

This programmable machining center will provide local area students with the opportunity to learn modern machining and programming, better preparing them for careers in manufacturing industries.

There are two types of oats on the market. Traditional, which is ground either course, fine or medium or the modern method, which is cut. This is where a machine cuts the grains into small pieces.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

I don't question our exsistence, I just question our modern needs.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

There are lots of ways we can use technology to get better, more efficient, ... ... without saying to the American people, 'You've got to live in the dark. Don't enjoy the things that our modern society brings you.' That shouldn't be necessary.

Like almost all others began with metaphysical discussions. The theory has advanced but the practical science is still in its infancy and the modern statesman is constantly short of facts on which he can base his speculations.

Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody's goal to actually make a funny game.

Liberal proponents of homosexual 'marriage' flatter themselves by casting their agenda as part of a modern civil rights struggle, ... But there is nothing noble about advancing the final frontier of a sexual revolution that has resulted in tens of thousands of men getting sick or dying young because they engage in homosexual perversions.

Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

Many of us think of her as one of the mothers of the modern women's movement. She played a very pivotal, very critical role in launching the second wave of the modern women's movement.

She was very much of the period, ... A lot of people played it too sexy, in a very modern way. And I think Gretchen had a very instinctive understanding of the sexiness of a very different time. You have to go back before Playboy, before the outright, blatant sexiness to something more hidden, teasing, more of the nice girl. Naughty but nice.

she says, blending the musical style of the 1860s with a more modern feel.

She's a woman of character and morals and discipline. You don't find a lot of that in people in modern times.

On an external level, the movie's about how an idealistic superhero functions in the modern world. But it ultimately becomes a story about what happens when an old boyfriend comes back into your life, and about Superman trying to find a place in Lois Lane's world. I'm attempting to make a very emotional film. This is certainly the most romantic, and the funniest, movie I've made, and toward the end it gets a bit intense.

Some of make-up's perennials have disappeared off the beauty barometer this season, replaced by a new, less obvious class of looks that takes elements of make-up past but gives them a modern edge,

Simon Wiesenthal and the institute he created played an absolutely vital role in showing the mechanisms of the Holocaust, pointing to those guilty of this genocide, ... I hope that this message will be universally accepted by politicians, societies and not just in the context of the Holocaust, but all crimes against human rights which take place in the modern world.

Sickert was a creep. But for some reason, so are all the best British modern painters.

Since an effort like this has not been undertaken in the modern history of this country, I think we are about to learn how it will truly move forward. Historically, local decision makers have been the lead, and the federal government picks up the tab where the law allows.

Share buybacks are just a necessary financial function in modern markets, something you have to do almost regardless of stock price. It's almost like paying your bills.

Sir Isaac Newton gave the extraterrestrials their biggest shot in the arm when he embraced the infinite universe as the basis for his hugely influential system of physics. Even so, the aliens of the early modern period remained creatures of philosophy rather than science.

Since (Interstate 95) is farther away from us, not a lot of attention was given to us (by developers). Not many modern buildings were put up.

Most people have experienced back pain at some point in their lives. Sometimes the pain goes away in a few days, but sometimes it lasts for weeks. And unfortunately, the treatments offered by modern Western medicine are only modestly effective.

Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.

Modern technology ... I guess it does do some good.

Modern technologies facilitate my communication with the world and help me to better manage the temple.

Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic.

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

Modern people are interested in modern media, like DVDs.

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Modern medicine uses imaging 'windows' such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners to bring into view otherwise unseen vital information that skilled physicians can use for the benefit of their patients.

Modern medicine is advancing to the point where the average human life span will be 100. But I read this article which said Social Security is supposed to run out by the year 2025, which means people are going to have to stay at their jobs until they're 80. So I don't want to commit to anything too soon.

Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe but seeks refuge in dogma.

Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.

Modern intensive farmland is a biological desert. Whereas if you tried to design a small nature reserve, you couldn't do better than the average garden - it's got all the required elements.

Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of those same crops.

Modern Foods and Dwight Yoakam, as a team, have been very adept at creating innovative retail food products that zero in on the changing needs of the consuming public. The positive consumer feedback has been tremendous, it just shows we are moving in the right direction.

Modern disaster planning began in the 1950s, with hurricanes of all things, and every time something happens we learn a little -- but only a little. People, unfortunately, have short memories. The same things happen again and again and again.

Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition.

Modern democracy was no doubt the most wholesome and needed reaction against the abuses of absolutism and of a selfish, often corrupt, bureaucracy.

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

Modern Americans are remarkably capable people, skillful and inventive in many ways, but they are not so good at talking to one another across their vast differences of social class and economic status.

Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.

May your love be modern enough to survive the times and old-fashioned enough to last forever!

One of many reasons why some people today are very difficult to accept the existence of advanced technology in prehistory era is because they didn't realize that their minds have already been clouded by an unconscious presumption which states 'ancient people should be primitive, before gradually evolving into this modern era nowadays'. I call this as 'Toba Syndrome'.

Of course these days -- with modern medicine -- everything could be revived, and I suppose there is always that chance. But it is looking deader and deader,

Of all the films I've worked on, that is among my favorites. It's an incredibly beautiful film. (Levinson) really captures what it means to be in a family and the ups and downs of that. He maps out beautifully how families moved from Eastern Europe to the United States and how they got broken up by the modern age.

No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

No one benefits other than a few quid in the coffers of the respective FA. It's just so outrageous that in the modern game this can happen. You'd be far better just having a get-together for a bit of bonding.

Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion.

One thing to remember is the sheer strength of inertia of investment that is in place -- aided in many cities by insurance companies and financial institutions, ... The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster.

MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? --Scopas Brune

More and more urban families are employing children to work in their homes. It is disappointing that these people, who have high levels of education and good incomes, do not recognize this as something that is not acceptable in modern society.

More than 20,000 traders are using the Market Toolbox. The recent content additions make it a must-have tool for modern traders.

My goal is to relate history to the modern day, ... History can give you an advantage because if you control the past, you control the future.

No operation should be carried out unless absolutely necessary . . . nor should a surgeon operate unless he would undergo the same operation himself in similar circumstances, ... The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery.

Obviously I don't know anything about who else was a candidate, ... But, looking at it from my perspective, I'm sure there are elements of what I have to offer which might seem safe. As for the shock of the new - I'm involved in a contemporary art museum in the Netherlands which has an international reputation as one of the best of the country. I've done exhibitions at the Van Gogh involving contemporary art and we've done work with modern painters, sculptors and photographers.

Pete brought us into the modern times with the television and other things. Paul has really taken us and made us a business entity.

Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life.

Pepper jelly seems like a modern variation on chutney. It offers an interesting balance of sweet and heat. The idea of serving it with a mild cheese like brie or gruyere is appealing.

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.

Postdocs are needed to build a modern research team; you want to bring in people with different backgrounds and different skills.

Poets now read all over the place, but at that time they didn't; if they were famous, they maybe read at the Museum of Modern Art,

Poets now read all over the place, but at that time they didn't - if they were famous, they maybe read at the Museum of Modern Art.

Poets now read all over the place, but at that time they didn't -- if they were famous, they maybe read at the Museum of Modern Art, ... American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation.

No airline in the modern era has resorted to contract rejection to get what they want and we will not willingly work without a contract. If they reject the contract, we'll keep all legal options open.

On the Road' is a seminal book that gave voice to a whole generation -- capturing its hunger for experience, unwillingness to accept imposed truths and dissatisfaction with the status quo. It is as modern today as it was four decades ago.

On the other hand, the culture of modern Japan, which implied being thoroughly open to the West or at least that impeded understanding by the West.

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

One of the good things about modern technology is they can take care of problems like this. I'm looking forward to getting it taken care of once and for all.

One of the problems with modern journalism is that it is not driven by news so much as it is by story elements.

One of the extra benefits of modern tennis is people learn more quickly ... the newer rackets are far more forgiving.

I would have to say that the modern Sam Goody store is the epitome of what has gone wrong in the music retail world. It doesn't surprise me that this has happened, although I am not happy about it.

I wish to state strongly that protectionist impulses have no place in modern economic governance.

I would classify it that way. Modern technology is challenging us tremendously.

If we don't, I fear very much that for the first time in the modern history of our country the next generation will have a lower standard of living than their parents, and that would be a real tragedy.

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

If this particular company and this particular country does not join the modern economy, it stands every risk of being left behind. But clearly, if it did it in a thoughtless way and tried to meet this demand of the market immediately, it would have created chaos.