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Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Robert H. Bork
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They brought a streamlining modernity to Jensen designs.

David A. Taylor
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Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and now he has eternity.

Piet Hein
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It is modernity at stake now. We must explain the distinctions between church and state, and between the press and the state, to our colleagues in the Arab world.

Robert Menard
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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
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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

Antonio Gramsci
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