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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.

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Most modern comedy is crap.

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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

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The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

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