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«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.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
bloodshed, brotherly, brotherly love, clock, cuckoo, cuckoos, cuckoo clock, das, da Vinci, five hundred, Italy, Leonardo, Leonardo da, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Renaissance, Switzerland, the Renaissance, Thirty Years, warfare
«In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Country,
Democracy,
Peace
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, cuckoo, cuckoos, cuckoo clock, five hundred, Switzerland
«Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.»
«He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.»
«He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.»
«He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.»
«For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; / And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: / And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: / After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.»
«Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; / Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
five hundred, Joseph, namely, numbered, The Names, tribe, Tribe of Ephraim, tribe of Joseph
«His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.»
«It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
assist, Atlantic Ocean, cannibal, cannibals, five hundred, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Zanzibar
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