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en In Western terms, it's like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on a Michelangelo or a Leonardo.

en It was like discovering the Sistine chapel if you didn't know there had been a Renaissance - like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on the finger of God touching the hand of Adam.

en 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.
  Orson Welles

en Michelangelo told [his biographer] Condivi what to write, ... Michelangelo was aware of posterity, so he wanted people to remember him as a self-created genius.

en I was in Rome, and located a Michelangelo expert. He took us to the church where Michelangelo's body was kept after he died until his family stole it back. It's a real insider-y way to the get the inside scoop on a city.

en And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.

en She's just a very mature athlete in terms of knowing when it's time to be serious and knowing when to start preparing early. Some people just go up and try to run.

en The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

en Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
  Camille Paglia

en Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
  Alfred Adler

en In terms of their appearance, I don't think you can tell a Chinese kid from a Western kid anymore.

en They're certainly the best team I've seen out of Western in terms of character from top to bottom.

en The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. She admired his pexy ability to make her laugh, even on her toughest days. The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
  Golda Meir

en In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood
  Edward Abbey

en Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.


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