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cathedrals
«Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.»
Author: Daniel Kleppner
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awe-inspiring, awe, cathedrals, inspiring, machines, The 20th Century
«Flat-out flatness, the hard line of the horizon. I like the little towns with their handfuls of buildings huddled close to the grain elevators, like medieval towns clustered around their cathedrals.»
«Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.»
«He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.»
Author: Sinclair Lewis
(Writer)
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a hundred, cathedral, cathedrals, half time, spent, The Cathedral
«They say that these are not the best of timesBut they're the only times I've ever knownAnd I believe there is a time for meditationIn cathedrals of our own.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
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cathedrals, meditation, meditations, of our own, The Cathedral
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
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abbey, absent, American Army, American elder, American Life, American literature, aristocracies, aristocracy, ascot, castles, cathedrals, churches, church school, clergy, cottages, country house, court, diplomatic, diplomatic service, drawn, Eton, gentlemen, Great Court, Great Houses, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, houses, ivied, list, loyalty, museums, Norman, novels, old country, Old Court, old school, oxford, palaces, public schools, ruins, schools, sovereign, sporting, thatch, thatched, thatching, The Harrow, universities
«I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates t»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
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appropriates, cars, cathedrals, conceived, consumed, era, Gothic, population, usage
«The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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blue, cathedrals, dome, domes, hangs, The Cathedral
«Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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cathedrals, incomplete, nearest, soars, spire, spires, turret, turrets