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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.


E. O. Wilson


#cook #destroying #economic #gain #like

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.


Steven Wright


#breakfast #during #french #i #ordered

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.


Mark Zandi


#begun #believe #construction #corner #crash

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.


Colin Hanks


#around #become #big #dad #going

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.


Horace


#alert #arrest #before #carefully #decay

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


#am #before #bringing #chicago #city

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.


Hu Shih


#century #dramas #frank #glorification #great

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.


Walter Pater


#ancient #attempt #century #certain #christianity

Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.


Julianne Davidow


#italy #love #renaissance #spiritual-world #love

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.


Harold MacMillan


#building #classical #followed #growth #incapable






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