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I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.
Jane Byrne
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Former Mayor Of Chicago
Confidence
Opportunity
Administration
Chicago
Cities
Community
Neighborhood
Renaissance
Revival
Tonight
Bringing
Dedicate
This Administration
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How I can be an active voice for gay people but also the music industry? This is the art we need right now. This is what we need right now. We're in a renaissance, and we need people to rebel, come forth, and bring messages into art.
King Princess
/
Active
Messages
Music Industry
Renaissance
Voice
Forth
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There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.
John Currin
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Painter
Fascination
Flow
Renaissance
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My greatest role model is my mom because she's a Renaissance woman. She has had many careers over the course of her life because she really is just an extremely creative, passionate person and is very involved in many different things.
Beanie Feldstein
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Careers
Different Things
Renaissance
Role Model
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It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.
Ben H. Winters
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Author
America
Journalism
Renaissance
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English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
David Crystal
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Author
Greek
Hebrew
Language
Latin
Renaissance
Vacuums
Background
English
Cleaner
French
Meeting
Romans
Vacuum
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For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, 'Quicksand' and 'Passing,' and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964.
Darryl Pinckney
/
Novelist
Died
Harlem
Late
Long Time
Mystery
Obscurity
Passing
Quicksand
Renaissance
Sophisticated
Life Time Long
Novels
Published
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It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.
Louis Auchincloss
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Lawyer
Art
Awful
Renaissance
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People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.
Anna Kendrick
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Actress
Civil War
Fans
Hearing
Rage
Renaissance
Twilight
War Tired People
Buy
Camp
Civil
Ticket
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When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's a music that's actually in the universe, they believed, that's out there in different dimensions.
Frederick Lenz
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Author
Different
Dimensions
Renaissance
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It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
Karl Urban
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Actor
Age
Capable
Exposed
Film Industry
Mother
New Zealand
Renaissance
Work Age Always
Period
Early Age
Production Company
Zealand
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For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.
Steven Price
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Film Composer
Emotion
Enjoyment
Guitar
Perfection
Purity
Renaissance
Strings
Amp
Equally
Hum
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Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.
Peter Agre
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Physician
Boundaries
Chemistry
Following
Formal
Limits
Medicine
Physics
Renaissance
Separating
Blurred
Curiosities
Scientists
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Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure.
David Levering Lewis
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University Professor
Eric
May
Renaissance
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Writer
Appreciate
Chaucer
English Language
Fantasy
Frost
Gorgeous
Renaissance
Couple Years
Poets
Shakespeare
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I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.
Emma Watson
/
Actress
Different
Different Things
Five
Four
Imagine
One Thing
Paint
Renaissance
Thing
Act
Myself Woman Doing
Sure
Pretty
Doing
Write
Woman
Myself Woman Never
Could
Myself End Doing
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Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
Edward Said
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Professor
Travel
War
Caught
Felt
Involved
June
Palestinian
Renaissance
Thinking
Writing
Started
Beginning
English
Directly
Himself
Professor
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If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely.
Katie Mcgrath
/
Actress
Aristocratic
If I Could
Renaissance
Louis
Loved
Mistresses
Nicely
Picked
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I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of rock music. That's when all the forces combined together-the talent that was available and the freedom for the artists. The industry hadn't become so gigantic.
Terence Trent D'arby
/
Renaissance
Rock Music
Combined
Gigantic
Huge Fan
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The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
Elaine Sciolino
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Designer
Florence
Furniture
Italian
Renaissance
Santa
Floor
Maria
Shop
Opened
Outlet
Soaps
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I felt that needed to be addressed: the idea that anything a man tries to do properly or thoroughly is dismissed as either metrosexual or OCD. But why can't you be practical and artistic at the same time, which was considered perfectly normal in the Renaissance?
James May
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Television Presenter
Artistic
Needed
Normal
Renaissance
Considered
Dismissed
Perfectly
Practical
Properly
Same Time
Thoroughly
Tries
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I'm a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is a legend more than a fairy tale, but 'Mulan' is easily my favorite. Not only is it a fun, action-packed, beautiful movie, but it's so important for young girls to have.
Victoria Aveyard
/
Author
Movie
Dear
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Renaissance
Favorite
Classics
Easily
Legend
Disney
Suppose
Near
Tale
Young Girls
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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.
Jackson Pollock
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Artist
Age
Airplane
Artist
Atom Bomb
Found
Mean
Modern
Needs
New Ways
Painter
Radio
Renaissance
Statements
Any
Artists
Atom
Bomb
Forms
Cannot
Old
Express
Means
Making
Techniques
Ways
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The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
Os Guinness
/
Author
God
Christian
Dawn
Five
Gloom
Holy
Holy Spirit
Minutes
People
Prayer
Reformation
Renaissance
Revival
Should
Situation
Spirit
Just
Always
Around
Before
Often
Darkest
Hour
Story
Turn
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Without mincing words or really embellishing anything... I consider Mike Alsbury the renaissance man. He could do it all. He was an engineer. He was a pilot. He worked well with others. He had a great sense of humor. I never heard him raise his voice or lose his cool.
Brian Binnie
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Cool
Humor
Heard
Mike
Renaissance
Sense Of Humor
Voice
Consider
Great Sense
Lose
Pilot
Raise
Worked
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Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.
George Edward Woodberry
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Literary Critic
Education
Men
Civilization
Depends
Elements
Golden
Links
Renaissance
Tradition
Understanding
Vitality
Bound
Each Man
Generation
Largely
Saying
Shakespeare
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The plan was just to make great art, and working with Donald Glover, who is such a renaissance man, we've been working together for ten years, and he is always pushing the envelope in a way - like, whenever we work together, I have no idea what it is going to turn out to be.
Ludwig Goransson
/
Great Art
No Idea
Pushing
Renaissance
Working Together
Art Work Great
Envelope
Work Art Great
Ten Years
Work Together
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
Tadao Ando
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Architect
Celebration
Chosen
Church
Concrete
Eternal
Religious
Renaissance
Trying
Attempt
Brick
Meant
Material
Object
Preserve
Stone
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One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed of in the 1970s. Instead, it's the beaten-down city: 8 Mile refers to the line of demarcation between Detroit and suburban, mostly white Oakland County.
Elvis Mitchell
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Film Critic
County
Detroit
Handful
Oakland
Renaissance
White
Young
Between
Coleman
Dreamed
Feature
Films
Instead
Line
Mayor
Mile
Mostly
Suburban
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I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'
Irvin Mayfield
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New Orleans
Rebirth
Renaissance
Myself Thinking People
Definition
Orleans
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I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.
Alessandro Michele
/
Austen
Fabric
Jane
Peanuts
Renaissance
Romanticism
Same Level
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Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was gradually displaced by French. By the eighteenth century, all the world - or at least all of Europe - aspired to be Parisian.
Michael Dirda
/
Critic
Communication
Latin
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Ages
All The World
Aspired
Displaced
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Gradually
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America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up.
Michael Ignatieff
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Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
America
Angry
Armed Forces
Ashamed
Defeat
Grey
Military
Renaissance
Vietnam
Armed
Charles
Clark
Colin
Colin Powell
Forces
Norman
Owed
Professional
Rebuilt
Returned
Veterans
Vietnam Veterans
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In Italy, for 30 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 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Graham Greene
/
Writer
Peace
Bloodshed
Brotherly
Clock
Democracy
Leonardo
Produce
Renaissance
Switzerland
Terror
Warfare
Years
Had
Did
Cuckoo
Italy
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I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus.
Amos Oz
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Writer
Jesus
Chance
Access
Basketball
Comfort
Realised
Renaissance
Art Age Music
Boy
Bach
Chase
Either
Evenings
Gospels
No Chance
Novels
Play Basketball
Unless
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Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue.
Darryl Pinckney
/
Novelist
Biographies
Figures
Harlem
Renaissance
Avenue
Jean
Memoirs
Phantom
Sights
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Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.
George Edward Woodberry
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Literary Critic
Children
Civilization
Europe
Fame
Flood
Height
Movement
Overflow
Renaissance
Western
Western Europe
Years
Continent
Essentially
Later
Marks
North
Sequel
Shakespeare
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I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they ask what I do at a cocktail party, I either say I'm a Renaissance woman or I'm a high-level madam. Lately I've been more comfortable saying I'm an artist, because that can cover a lot of different things.
Liz Goldwyn
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Artist
Comfortable
Different Things
Party
Renaissance
Time Me People
Box
Cocktail
Cover
Either
Hard Time
Lately
Madam
Placing
Saying
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
Mandy Moore
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Singer-Songwriter
Barefoot
Bohemian
Princess
Renaissance
Thinking
Towers
Disney
Paints
Princesses
Reads
Tower
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Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?
Jerry Saltz
/
Art Critic
Artist
Italian
Leonardo
Raphael
Renaissance
Wonder
Years
Yourself Your Living
Distinguish
Italy
Lasted
Up-And-Coming
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In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been slowly bled to death with McCain paper cuts. Say what you will, but Obama has brought about a patriotic and civic renaissance, the likes of which I have never seen.
Brad Thor
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Novelist
Likes
Mccain
Paper
Patriotic
Renaissance
Steak
Bled
Chest
Civic
Cuts
Elected
Slowly
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That whole heroic notion of the women warriors known as Amazons is extremely appealing. It was appealing in antiquity, and, throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, they're always portrayed as heroic, courageous, and the equals of men, and that's just extremely attractive and has been since antiquity.
Adrienne Mayor
/
Historian
Antiquity
Attractive
Courageous
Heroic
Middle Ages
Notion
Renaissance
Men Women Always
Ages
Appealing
Equals
Women Men Always
Portrayed
Warriors
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Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me in spite of myself, and in spite of her own struggles with alcohol. She was an immigrant who had never finished school. But she was also a Renaissance woman who read voraciously. She spoke several languages.
Richard Carmona
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Former United States Surgeon General
Alcohol
Care
Finished
Lucy
Mother
Renaissance
School
Spite
Take Care
Myself Mother Me
Myself Me Care
Also
Languages
Woman
Read
Her
Immigrant
Mercedes
Several
She
Tried
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I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go - just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - what you will find is that women's voices are not taken seriously.
Mary Beard
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Professor
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Rome
Ages
Dominated
Homer
Inherited
Voices
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We are in the middle of a tough, ideological conflict that is being waged across the entire continent. On the one side are those who say that global challenges like migration and terror cannot be met with national parochialism. On the other side are those who would like to see a renaissance of the nation-state.
Martin Schulz
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German Politician
Challenges
Migration
Renaissance
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Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without paper, there would have been no Renaissance. If there had been no paper, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. None of these statements is true.
Mark Kurlansky
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Journalist
Architecture
Extravagant
Industrial Revolution
Paper
Renaissance
Revolution
Statements
Industrial
None
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When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.
Kip Thorne
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Physicist
Great Art
Great Things
Leonardo
Renaissance
Understanding
Universe
Hundred Years
Insights
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My hope is that 'The New World Haggadah' will open a new world for readers who will see our heritage through a multilingual prism. I wanted to feature medieval and renaissance authors, resistance in World War II, crypto-Jews and activists during the Dirty War in Latin America, songs of protest, and songs of hope.
Ilan Stavans
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Essayist
War
America
Heritage
Latin
Latin America
Medieval
New World
Protest
Renaissance
Resistance
Wanted
World War Ii
Hope World Will
Activists
War Hope World
Authors
Open
Feature
Prism
Readers
World War
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I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory.
Adrian Mckinty
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Novelist
Belfast
Body
Finest
Gaelic
Renaissance
University
Yeats
Since
Came
Set
Queen
Lady
Paul
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Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services.
Douglas Rushkoff
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Writer
Jobs
Advent
Chickens
Goods
People
Renaissance
Shoes
Concept
Corporation
Relatively
Plucked
Services
Traded
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