"A selfie has more face and fewer feelings."

Modernity, Feelings, Expression, Life, Image

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"Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Modernity, Innovation, History, Novelty, Bureaucracy

"With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken-formerly it was only the prominent-and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Modernity, Technology, Identity, Progress, Irony

"For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense impact it's had on our reflexes. Our bodies are simply not used to it. Frankly, the result is that, when we talk on the telephone, we enter a state that is similar to certain magical trances; we can discover other things about ourselves."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Modernity, Communication, Technology, Awareness, Discovery

"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."

Paul de Man, Belgian Critic

Modernity, Literary

"This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Modernity, City, Life, Beauty, Abuse

"In modern time slowness is new sickness."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Modernity, Time, Disease, Society, Life

"We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Modernity, Time, Loss, Truth

"He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Harry Blakemoor died with his tie on. I like it, Larry."

Stephen King, American Author

Modernity, Mortality, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

Modernity, Order, Tradition

"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession."

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"People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away."

Life

"Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time."

Life

"In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts."

Legacy

"Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality."

Education

"Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth."

Technology

"The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'."

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"Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it."

"With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken-formerly it was only the prominent-and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait."

"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."

"This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive."

"In modern time slowness is new sickness."

"We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time."

"He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Harry Blakemoor died with his tie on. I like it, Larry."

"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."

"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."

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"I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book."

"You need a team for war, not for negotiation."

"Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes."

"Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession."

"People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away."

"Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time."

"In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts."

"Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality."

"Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth."

"The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'."