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Births

• 1572 - John Donne
• 1945 - Greil Marcus
• 1928 - Barry Took
• 1966 - Joichi Ito
• 1917 - Joshua Nkomo

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• 1886 - Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan
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• Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art’s wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Modern, Monumental

• It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He’s the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Modern, Invented

• We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM’ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.

  Ginni Rometty

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  Tags in Citizens, Modern

• I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

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  Tags in Modern, Man

• For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

  Boris Spassky

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  Tags in Time, Control, Modern

• Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

  Boris Spassky

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  Tags in Poor, Modern

• Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

  Frederick Soddy

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  Tags in People, Ignorance, Modern

• The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

  Franz Boas

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  Tags in Modern, Nations

• The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today’s fans.

  Franz Beckenbauer

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  Tags in Reasons, Enough, Modern

• A nation’s ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

  Frank Whittle

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  Tags in Nation, Modern

• From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

  Bill Frist

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  Tags in Modern

• Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he’s too busy to enjoy.

  Frank Howard Clark

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  Tags in Things, Modern

• Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

  Cate Blanchett

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  Tags in Modern, World

• The party at its best has always been a modern party.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Modern, Best

• They don’t think we’re in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Understand, Modern

• My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

  Frances Bean Cobain

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  Tags in Thing, Look, Modern

• Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

  Gerhard Schroder

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  Tags in Modern, Immigration

• I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

  Dan Stevens

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Modern, Possibly

• The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

  Georges Bernanos

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  Tags in Modern, State

• The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

  Sydney Brenner

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Modern