modern world
Noun
Meaning
the circumstances and ideas of the present age
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment.
We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.