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Letter "R" » Renaissance
«The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.»
Author: Larry Summers
| About:
Economics,
History
| Keywords:
alongside, Asian, developments, dramatic, Economic development, economies, industrial, industrial revolution, modernization, ranks, Renaissance, the Renaissance
«Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish!»
Author: Wallace Henry Thurman
| Keywords:
acclaim, acclaimed, racket, rackets, Renaissance, the Renaissance
«Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.»
«New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.»
Author: Jackson Pollock
(Painter)
| Keywords:
airplane, atom, atom bomb, atom bombs, bomb, Modern Age, radio, Renaissance, statements, techniques, The Atom, The Modern Age, the Renaissance
«Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.»
Author: Norman Mailer
| Keywords:
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«In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
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«Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.»
Author: Horace
(Poet)
| About:
Effort
| Keywords:
arrest, guarding, relapse, relapses, Renaissance, the Renaissance
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