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As I say, this is in many dictionaries, but you'll also find it actually in the work of Sir Edward Tylor, who was the first professor of anthropology at Oxford, one of the first modern anthropologists.

These were modern people.

"Brave" has its old sense of showy as well as its modern sense, courage.

After Stonewall happened, gay liberation groups sprang up all over the country, and the modern gay rights movement as we know it took off.

Well, here's the paradox of modern science, the paradox of the conclusion I think historians and philosophers and sociologists have come to, that actually science is the appeal to authority, but it's not the authority of the individual, no matter how smart that individual is, like Plato or Socrates or Einstein.

The modern automobile hardly ever breaks down.

It's because the modern automobile is the product of more than 100 years of work by hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of people.

The modern automobile is the product of the collected work and wisdom and experience of every man and woman who has ever worked on a car, and the reliability of the technology is the result of that accumulated effort.

We benefit not just from the genius of Benz and Ford and Musk but from the collective intelligence and hard work of all of the people who have worked on the modern car.

Now, ChucK is a programming language for music, and it's open-source, it's freely available, and I like to think that it crashes equally well on all modern operating systems.

We don't admire countries primarily because they're rich, because they're powerful, because they're successful, because they're modern, because they're technologically advanced.

What they're grounded in is the understanding of human rights, a belief that their life is as valuable to them as my life is to me, and to support this, he tells a story by the great philosopher Adam Smith, and I want to tell this story too, though I'm going to modify it a little bit for modern times.

Considering this, East Germany was a very modern dictatorship.

Here, the Stasi also developed quite modern methods of detention.

One way we learned to do this more effectively was a new type of housing unit called the Intensive Management Unit, IMU, a modern version of a "hole."

But just the idea that the more distant a galaxy, the faster it was receding, was enough to give rise to modern cosmology.

We've moved from an era of ignorance about what causes cancer, in which cancer was commonly ascribed to personal psychological characteristics, to a modern molecular understanding of the true biological causes of cancer.

I got my degree in modern dance.

For them, there's no modern toilet.

Now, one important conclusion of my historical research is that modern industrial growth did not change this basic fact as much as one might have expected.

To me, it seems like the 18th-century slogan that was the basis for the formation of our modern democracies, "No taxation without representation," can now be updated to "No representation without a conversation."

And what he said was that this mindset, this framework discovered by Bentham, was the key means of societal control for modern, Western societies, which no longer need the overt weapons of tyranny — punishing or imprisoning or killing dissidents, or legally compelling loyalty to a particular party — because mass surveillance creates a prison in the mind that is a much more subtle though much more effective means of fostering compliance with social norms or with social orthodoxy, much more effective than brute force could ever be.

Thanks to modern technology, the government knows far too much about what happens behind closed doors.

But then, living in two extremes between the traditions of my culture, of my village, and then modern education in my school wasn't easy.

But it's a sad fact of modern life that one in two marriages in the States ends in divorce, with the rest of the world not being far behind.

We need to address the more modern, pressing problems that these whales face in our waters today.

And politics and democracy without an effective challenge hobbles, because the causes that have inspired the modern recent movements are crucial.

It's a relatively modern disease in terms of what we know about it.

It means that a public space in the ancient city of Seville can be unique and tailored to the way that a modern city works.

It struck me as quite unacceptable that in this modern time, just a few hundred meters away from a ranger station in a sanctuary, that in fact nobody could hear it when someone who has a chainsaw gets fired up.

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