"When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Modernism Quotes

“Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life.”

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1943). “Early and Late: Addresses, Messages, and Papers”, Hindhead, Surrey : The Soncino Press
“Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.”

Source : "Home entertainment" by Nick Moran, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2001.
“Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West.”
“I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid â€” if you are afraid, you can't move forward.”
“Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.”
“There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.”
“It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.”
“When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.”

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