A Quote by E. B. White

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

E. B. White

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E. B. White
American - Writer
July 11, 1899 - October 1, 1985

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Todd Farmer

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Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

E. M. Delafield

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Steve Erickson

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Constance Wu

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Steven Pinker

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Christopher Lasch

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Hermann Weyl

Modern Indian woman is not one who speaks in English or one who wears modern clothes but she is the one who has her own values, follows tradition and education to bring about a change in the society.

Soha Ali Khan

We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.

Marc Gafni

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