#ages

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It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.


Isaac Mayer Wise


#days #fanatical #flourished #middle #middle ages

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.


Frank Capra


#languages #mathematics #music #other #three

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.


Henry Morton Stanley


#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.


John le Carre


#always #cleanly #communicate #concern #directly

The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consumer heaven of the isolated multiapplianced home; but where women are trapped today, there is no door to slam. The contemporary ravages of the beauty backlash are destroying women physically and depleting us psychologically. If we are to free ourselves from the dead weight that has once again been made out of femaleness, it is not ballots or lobbyists or placards that women will need first; it is a new way to see.


Naomi Wolf


#beauty #eating-disorders #images #magazines #marketing

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.


Ron Chernow


#beat #circle #deadly #difficult #even

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.


Kenny Chesney


#every #get #i #sing #songs

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.


Jacques Chirac


#ages #allow #back #basic #corrupt

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.


Carol P. Christ


#did #first #goddess #images #interest

There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.


Helena Christensen


#care #cinematography #composed #composition #gone