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“Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.”

Difficult Creativity Economic Periods Invention Spurs

Author:Carisa Bianchi

“Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.”

“I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.”

Men Believe Kind I Believe Nations Understanding Greatness Development Periods Tests Noble Absence Invention Limitation Grotesque Smallness Incapability

Book:The Stones of Venice -: The Fall

Source: The Stones of Venice -: The Fall

“The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.”

Spirit Needed Periods Intellect Invention Phrases Men Women Emancipation

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of the ruling society, the invention of illustrated magazines is one of the most powerful means of organizing a strike against understanding... The 'image-idea' drives away the idea.”

Mean Littles Ideas Hands Understanding Memories Powerful Known Periods Strikes Invention Magazines Most Powerful Flood Ruling Dams

Book:The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays

Source: The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays

“All these things, social media or [smart] phones or the things that distract us from each other, are fairly new. They're all fairly new inventions, and I think we're in a stage where we sort of as a whole have gotten these new toys and we're just obsessed with playing with them. I feel like after a period of adjustment it will inevitably be a regression from where we are now.”

Thinking Feels Whole Social Stage Media Periods Smart Phones Social Media Invention Obsessed Toys Adjustment Regression New Inventions New Toys

Author:Daniel Radcliffe