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«Magazine photography is the mural painting of modern times.»
Author: Gene Thornton
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magazine, modern times, mural, murals, painting, photography, The Magazine
«One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time»
Author: Idries Shah
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Belief,
Tragedy
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«The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
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blessing, curse, forgets, modern, modern times, press, printing, printing press
«What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live...»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
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