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“We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at the beginning of a renaissance of trust.”

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Author:Klaus Schwab

“As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?”

“The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.”

“Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.”

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Book:About modern art: critical essays, 1948-96

Source: About modern art: critical essays, 1948-96

“Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.”

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Author:Peter Lewis Allen

“People think my career started when I sent that tape to Renaissance. I’d actually been working hard for seven years before I got to that point. I was putting on parties and booking DJs around me to get my name on the flyer. I knew I had to do it for myself. I knew no one was going to come knocking on my door. I knew it was up to me.”

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Author:John Digweed

“People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.”

“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.”

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Author:Edward Said

“The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.”

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Author:Arthur Erickson

“I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.”

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Author:Hermann Goring

“Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.”

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Author:Jackson Pollock

“If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance artists, such roles are not mutually exclusive. A great cathedral has both structural impressiveness and delicate detail. A great mathematical theory should similarly be beautiful on both large and small scales.”

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Author:Michael Atiyah

“National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.”

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Author:Frantz Fanon

“The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.”

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Author:Pierre Schaeffer

“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.”

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Author:Horace

“I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.”

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Author:Giambattista Valli

“When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.”

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Author:Mark Stevenson

“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.”

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Author:David Levering Lewis

“A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.”

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Author:Mark Zandi

“Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.”

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Author:John Dos Passos

“In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.”

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Author:John Fowles

“The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.”

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Book:The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.”

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Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.”

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Book:Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities

Source: Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities

“Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.”

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Book:Venice observed

Source: Venice observed

“The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.”

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Author:Hu Shih

“I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.”

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Book:Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Source: Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder

“Senegal needs a renaissance.”

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Author:Youssou N'Dour

“From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.”

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Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“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.”

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Author:David Crystal

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