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«There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian. The rest of the world are amiable nonentities.»
Author: Geoffrey Fisher
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People
| Keywords:
amiable, communist, frankly, modern world, nonentities, nonentity, Rest of the world
«The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that control the modern world, may set it free to do the only thing that in this age it can do -to keep the neglected parts»
Author: Graham Hough
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attachment, economic power, Modern Age, modern world, neglected, political power, slightest, The Modern Age
«There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
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a people, claiming, fatuous, good part, ills, indecent, lamentable, miseries, modern world, phrase, The Pursuit of Happiness, undertaken
«To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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American history, American System, civics, Happy ending, identify, instructed, modern history, modern world, nonconformity, passionately, politically, quarrels, rebellious, straining, They Live, the system
«The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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Religion
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absence, asylum, asylums, be due, complexion, complexions, due, dues, due to, Jerusalem, lunatic, modern, modern world, religious, This Modern World
«We are engaged mainly in a struggle for the soul of this new century. Victory for our vision depends upon winning the fight we're in against terrorism, on spreading the benefits, and reducing the burdens of the modern world, on changes in poor nations themselves that will make progress possible, and finally, on developing a global level of consciousness about what our responsibilities to each other are and what our relationships ought to be.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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benefits, burdens, developing, engaged, global, level of consciousness, mainly, modern world, reducing, responsibilities, spreading, terrorism
«The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
communism, Empire, evil empire, modern world, soviet, Soviets, Soviet Empire, Soviet Union, This Modern World, union
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