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«The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
| Keywords:
alert, alerting, corporation, enters, enter upon, increasingly, modern, on the alert, spends, The Corporation, The Family
«Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.»
Author: Swami Nirmalananda
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
cage in, decorate, decorated, decorates, decorating, engaged, imprisoned, imprisons, kept, modern, modern society, polishes, polishing, The Cage
«The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
advantage, communication, enable, modern, This Modern World
«The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
blessing, curse, forgets, modern, modern times, press, printing, printing press
«Perversity is the muse of modern literature»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
literature, modern, muse, mused, Muses, musing, perversities, perversity
«Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
apt, fashioned, modern, old fashioned, suddenly
«Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
crime, modern, parent, starvation
«Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
fortune, information, large, modern, moderns, practically, private, privates, source, The Source