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title: "112 Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes by 90 authors"
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> [If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/banksy/if-michaelangelo-or-leonardo-da-vinci-were-alive-today-they-d-be/)

[Banksy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/banksy/)

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> [“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. -Leonardo Da Vinci”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-bowden/while-i-thought-that-i-was-learning-how-to-live-i-have-been-learning/)

[Oliver Bowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-bowden/)

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> [ He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. \[On Leonardo Da Vinci\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-auguste-renoir/he-bores-me-he-ought-to-have-stuck-to-his-flying-machine-on-leonardo/)

[Pierre-Auguste Renoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-auguste-renoir/)

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> [“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. —LEONARDO DA VINCI In”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-greene/one-can-have-no-smaller-or-greater-mastery-than-mastery-of-oneself-2/)

[Robert Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-greene/)

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> [“Embora eu acreditasse estar aprendendo a viver, estava aprendendo a morrer. — Leonardo da Vinci”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/embora-eu-acreditasse-estar-aprendendo-a-viver-estava-aprendendo-a/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edvard-munch/just-as-leonardo-da-vinci-studied-human-anatomy-and-dissected-corpses/)

[Edvard Munch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edvard-munch/)

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> [“quote from Leonardo da Vinci: “Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/quote-from-leonardo-da-vinci-obstacles-cannot-crush-me-every-obstacle/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” —Leonardo da Vinci”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katy-bowman/the-human-foot-is-a-masterpiece-of-engineering-and-a-work-of-art/)

[Katy Bowman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katy-bowman/)

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> [“Rorschach knew Binet’s work and was familiar with Binet’s own inspiration—Leonardo da Vinci, who in his “Treatise on Painting” described throwing paint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damion-searls/rorschach-knew-binet-s-work-and-was-familiar-with-binet-s-own/)

[Damion Searls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damion-searls/)

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> [“Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hourly-history/weight-force-and-casual-impulse-together-with-resistance-are-the-four/)

[Hourly History](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hourly-history/)

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> [I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-ayers/i-was-being-an-artist-being-sensitive-and-technical-as-artists-are-i/)

[Roy Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-ayers/)

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> [“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-isaacson/atop-the-brochure-mckenna-put-a-maxim-often-attributed-to-leonardo-da/)

[Walter Isaacson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-isaacson/)

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> [I particularly like the catchphrase of Leonardo Da Vinci: Ostinato Rigore! (Which means, pretty much, Relentless Rigor).](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lynch/i-particularly-like-the-catchphrase-of-leonardo-da-vinci-ostinato/)

[Paul Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lynch/)

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> [When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-babailov/when-we-think-of-leonardo-da-vinci-the-last-thing-that-comes-to-mind/)

[Igor Babailov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-babailov/)

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> [Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-shneiderman/leonardo-da-vinci-combined-art-and-science-and-aesthetics-and/)

[Ben Shneiderman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-shneiderman/)

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> [I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kirby/i-feel-that-any-man-that-tries-any-man-that-comes-out-with-something/)

[Jack Kirby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kirby/)

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> [I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lasseter/i-quickly-realized-that-this-medium-had-a-lot-to-offer-someone-like/)

[John Lasseter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lasseter/)

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> [If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debbie-harry/if-i-had-to-spend-equal-time-doing-paintings-and-equal-time-going-to/)

[Debbie Harry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debbie-harry/)

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> [ The modern version of Buridan's ass \[a figurative description of a man of indecision\] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/the-modern-version-of-buridan-s-ass-a-figurative-description-of-a-man/)

[Erwin Chargaff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erwin-chargaff/)

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> [“Neoplatonists also believed that the vast variety of human thought, if traced back to the One Source—what Leonardo da Vinci called the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/neoplatonists-also-believed-that-the-vast-variety-of-human-thought-if/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

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> [Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fabrizio-moreira/can-you-imagine-being-leonardo-da-vinci-in-the-1400s-trying-to/)

[Fabrizio Moreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fabrizio-moreira/)

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> [“Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-greene/oysters-open-completely-when-the-moon-is-full-and-when-the-crab-sees-2/)

[Robert Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-greene/)

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> [Dont say you dont have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-jackson-brown-jr/dont-say-you-dont-have-enough-time-you-have-exactly-the-same-number/)

[H. Jackson Brown, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-jackson-brown-jr/)

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> [“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-crosby/don-t-say-you-don-t-have-enough-time-you-have-exactly-the-same-number/)

[Dennis Crosby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-crosby/)

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> [“Leonardo da Vinci and the much younger Michelangelo had often made it clear that they had no respect for each other’s craft.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/leonardo-da-vinci-and-the-much-younger-michelangelo-had-often-made-it/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

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> [For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/for-the-pre-darwinian-age-had-come-to-be-regarded-as-a-dark-age-in/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-frenkel/what-if-at-school-you-had-to-take-an-art-class-in-which-you-were-only/)

[Edward Frenkel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-frenkel/)

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> [ “To a very strange lizard, found by the gardener of the Belvedere, he \[Leonardo\] fastened some wings with a mixture of quicksilver… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/girogio-vasari/to-a-very-strange-lizard-found-by-the-gardener-of-the-belvedere-he/)

[Girogio Vasari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/girogio-vasari/)

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> [“I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/i-ve-never-believed-that-they-re-separate-leonardo-da-vinci-was-a/)

[Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/)

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> [Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/travel-releases-spontaneity-you-become-a-godlike-creature-full-or/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

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> [“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-isaacson/edwin-land-of-polaroid-talked-about-the-intersection-of-the/)

[Walter Isaacson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-isaacson/)

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> [“The "Mona Lisa" is an optical illusion created by Leonardo Da Vinci. The woman in the painting "The Mona Lisa" doesn't appear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avijeet-das/the-mona-lisa-is-an-optical-illusion-created-by-leonardo-da-vinci-the/)

[Avijeet Das](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avijeet-das/)

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> [“When he was creating this picture, Leonardo da Vinci encountered a serious problem: he had to depict Good - in the person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/when-he-was-creating-this-picture-leonardo-da-vinci-encountered-a/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [“One of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous creations is his painting of The Last Supper. It is said that while Leonardo da…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-andrea/one-of-leonardo-da-vinci-s-most-famous-creations-is-his-painting-of/)

[Fred Andrea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-andrea/)

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> [“ “I’m talking about greatness, about taking a lever to the world and moving it,” Larry Ellison said, walking the grounds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-guthrie/i-m-talking-about-greatness-about-taking-a-lever-to-the-world-and/)

[Julian Guthrie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-guthrie/)

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> [“The perpetrator of such a misdemeanor must have a motive. Is UMMO the private joke of a group of Spanish engineers? Is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-f-vall-e/the-perpetrator-of-such-a-misdemeanor-must-have-a-motive-is-ummo-the/)

[Jacques F. Vallée](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-f-vall-e/)

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> [“If we want to lower ourselves to the level of the public there are two things we can do for them--and which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/if-we-want-to-lower-ourselves-to-the-level-of-the-public-there-are/)

[Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/)

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> [“ Money Facts The Lira was the basic unit of Italian currency from 1861, when Ital was unified, to 2002. That year,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-f-blashfield/money-facts-the-lira-was-the-basic-unit-of-italian-currency-from-1861/)

[Jean F. Blashfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-f-blashfield/)

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> [“Leonardo da Vinci, was brought to the Vatican in 1513 by the new pope, Leo X, and given a list of commissions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-blech/leonardo-da-vinci-was-brought-to-the-vatican-in-1513-by-the-new-pope/)

[Benjamin Blech](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-blech/)

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> [“When you travel you become invisible if you want. I do want. I like to be the observer. What makes these people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/when-you-travel-you-become-invisible-if-you-want-i-do-want-i-like-to/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

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## Top authors on Leonardo Da Vinci

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walter-isaacson-94380.jpg) Walter Isaacson 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/leonardo-da-vinci/walter-isaacson/)

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                        "text": "The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.",
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                        "text": "“Neoplatonists also believed that the vast variety of human thought, if traced back to the One Source—what Leonardo da Vinci called the Prime Mover—would lead to spiritual enlightenment and ultimately to God. This and the mystical texts that Ficino was translating led him to attempt a fusion of all mystical beliefs, from Greek gnosticism to Egyptian hermeneutics to Christian cosmology—and to Jewish Kabbalah.”",
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                        "text": "Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.",
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                        "text": "“Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519”",
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                        "text": "Dont say you dont have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.",
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                        "text": "“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.   -H. Jackson Brown”",
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                        "text": "“Leonardo da Vinci and the much younger Michelangelo had often made it clear that they had no respect for each other’s craft. Leonardo disparaged the new trend for portraying overly muscular male nudes—he said it was like looking at “sacks filled with nuts”—and unfavorably compared the messy, noisy workshop of a sculptor where everything and everyone was covered in marble chips, dust, and sweat with the quiet, clean, orderly studio of a painter “where one can listen to fine music” while working. Michelangelo, on the other hand, made no effort to disguise his dislike for the two-dimensional “falsity” of painting.”",
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                        "text": "For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.",
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                        "text": "What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it…..but this is how math is taught and so in the eyes of most of us it becomes the equivalent of watching paint dry. While the paintings of the great masters are readily available, the math of the great masters is locked away.",
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                        "text": "“To a very strange lizard, found by the gardener of the Belvedere, he [Leonardo] fastened some wings with a mixture of quicksilver made from scales scraped from other lizards, which quivered as it moved by crawling about. After he had fashioned eyes, a horn, and a beard for it, he tamed the lizard and kept it in a box, and all the friends to whom he showed it fled in terror. The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (from The Lives of the Artists)”",
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                        "text": "“I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry. The finest dozen computer scientists I know are all musicians. Some are better than others, but they all consider that an important part of their life. I don't believe that the best people in any of these fields see themselves as one branch of a forked tree. I just don't see that.People bring these things together a lot. Dr. Land at Polaroid said, \"I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science,\" and I've never forgotten that. I think that that's possible, and I think a lot of people have tried.”",
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                        "text": "Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.",
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                        "text": "“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that's not the main distinction of my career. The reason Apple resonates with people is that there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and great engineers are similar in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the best people working on the original Mac were poets and musicians on the side. In the seventies computers became a way for people to express their creativity. Great artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were also great art science. Michelangelo knew a lot about how to quarry stone, not just how to be a sculptor.”",
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                        "text": "“The \"Mona Lisa\" is an optical illusion created by Leonardo Da Vinci. The woman in the painting \"The Mona Lisa\" doesn't appear to be always smiling. When you look at her mouth you feel she looks sad, melancholic, and hostile. But when you look at her eyes you feel she is happy and cheerful. Leonardo perfected the \"sfumato technique,\" which translated literally from Italian means \"vanished or evaporated.\" He created imperceptible transitions between light and shade, and sometimes between colors. \"Why the Silhouette?\" appears as a simple story of a few individuals, but when you look at it from a distance, it appears to show you the philosophy of life. I have tried to create imperceptible transitions between light and darkness and sometimes between colors. Hope you see the illusion in \"Why the Silhouette?”",
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                        "text": "“When he was creating this picture, Leonardo da Vinci encountered a serious problem: he had to depict Good - in the person of Jesus - and Evil - in the figure of Judas, the friend who resolves to betray him during the meal. He stopped work on the painting until he could find his ideal models. One day, when he was listening to a choir, he saw in one of the boys the perfect image of Christ. He invited him to his studio and made sketches and studies of his face. Three years went by. The Last Supper was almost complete, but Leonardo had still not found the perfect model for Judas. The cardinal responsible for the church started to put pressure on him to finish the mural. After many days spent vainly searching, the artist came across a prematurely aged youth, in rags and lying drunk in the gutter. With some difficulty, he persuaded his assistants to bring the fellow directly to the church, since there was no time left to make preliminary sketches. The beggar was taken there, not quite understanding what was going on. He was propped up by Leonardo's assistants, while Leonardo copied the lines of impiety, sin and egotism so clearly etched on his features. When he had finished, the beggar, who had sobered up slightly, opened his eyes and saw the picture before him. With a mixture of horror and sadness he said: 'I've seen that picture before!' 'When?' asked an astonished Leonardo. 'Three years ago, before I lost everything I had, at a time when I used to sing in a choir and my life was full of dreams. The artist asked me to pose as the model for the face of Jesus.”",
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                        "text": "“One of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous creations is his painting of The Last Supper. It is said that while Leonardo da Vinci was working on the painting he got into an argument with a fellow painter. Leonardo da Vinci was so mad at this colleague that in anger and out of spite he painted that man's face as the face of Judas in his painting of the upper room Supper. But then, having completed that, Leonardo da Vinci turned to paint the face of Christ and he could not do it. It wouldn't come. He couldn't visualize it. He couldn't paint the face of Christ. He put down his paintbrush and went to find the man from whom he was estranged. He forgave him; they reconciled with one another; they both apologized. They both forgave. That very evening Leonardo da Vinci had a dream and in that dream he saw the face of Christ. He rose quickly from his bed and finished the painting and it became one of his greatest masterpieces.”",
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                        "text": "“ “I’m talking about greatness, about taking a lever to the world and moving it,” Larry Ellison said, walking the grounds of his new Woodside property in spring 2000 with his best friend, Steve Jobs. “I’m not talking about moral perfection. I’m talking about people who changed the world the most during their lifetime.” Jobs, who had returned to Apple three years earlier, enjoyed the conversational volleying with Larry about who was history’s greatest person. The Apple co-founder placed Leonardo da Vinci and Gandhi as his top choices, with Gandhi in the lead. Leonardo, a great artist and inventor, lived in violent times and was a designer of tanks, battlements, ramparts, and an assortment of other military tools and castle fortifications. Larry joked that had Leonardo not been gay, he would have been “a perfect fit for the Bush administration.” Jobs, who had studied in India, cited Gandhi’s doctrine of nonviolent revolution as an example of how it was possible to remain morally pure while aggressively pursuing change. Larry’s choice could not have been more different from Gandhi: the Corsican-born military leader Napoleon Bonaparte. “Napoleon overthrew kings and tyrants throughout Europe, created a system of free public schools, and wrote one set of laws that applied to everybody. Napoleon achieved liberal ends through conservative means,” Larry argued. \" - The Billionaire and the Mechanic”",
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                        "text": "“The perpetrator of such a misdemeanor must have a motive. Is UMMO the private joke of a group of Spanish engineers? Is it a psychological warfare exercise, as some French analysts suspect? Or is the truth more complex, rooted in a social reality where the ideas and symbols of UMMO have acquired a life of their own, their special mythology, and a set of beliefs that feed on themselves? We can at least be certain of one thing: the UMMO documents do not come from advanced beings trying to demonstrate their existence to us. But try to explain it to their disciples! Very few UFO believers, and even fewer of their New Age counterparts, have any formal training in science. They are easily awed by any document that contains a few equations and a numerical system of base 12. Yet if they had some awareness of modern technology, they would realize how easy it should be for an advanced race to prove its genuine skill to a society like the human race. After reading the masses of documents purportedly coming from the planet UMMO, I asked myself: if I had the opportunity to communicate with intelligent beings of an earlier time, such as the high priests of Egypt, how would I establish a meaningful dialogue? I certainly would not insult them by sending a letter beginning with ”We are aware of the transcendence of what we are about to tell you”—especially if I had an imperfect command of hieroglyphics! Instead, I would concentrate on a few points of valuable, verifiable information. Since the Egyptians already knew how to make electrical batteries and were aware of the magnetic properties of certain minerals, I would send them a simple set of instructions to make a coil and a compass. I could explain resistance and Ohm’s Law, a simple equation that was easily within the grasp of their mathematicians. Or I would tell them about making glass and lenses from sand. If they wanted proof, I would not bother to reveal to them set theory or the fact that E is equal to mc2. Instead, I would send them a table predicting future eclipses, or a diagram to build an alternator, or Leonardo da Vinci’s design for variable-speed cogwheels. That should get the attention of the top scientists in their culture and open up a dialogue. Unfortunately, the extraterrestrials of UMMO and other planets never seem to communicate at this level. Are they afraid of collapsing our society by appearing too advanced with respect to us? This hypothesis does not hold, since they have chosen a very obvious way of showing themselves in our skies.”",
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                        "text": "“If we want to lower ourselves to the level of the public there are two things we can do for them--and which are done for them. The first is to give them characters who think as they do [...], and whom they understand perfectly. When this is the case they receive two impressions; firstly they think that they must themselves be very witty, as they laugh at what they take to be witty writing--and this never fails to happen to Monsieur Donnay's audiences. Secondly they get the impression that they are participating in the creation of the play, which relieves them of the effort of anticipating what is going to happen. The other thing we can do for them is give them a commonplace sort of plot--write about things that happen all the time to the common man, because the fact is that Shakespeare, Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci are somewhat bulky; their diameter is a bit difficult to traverse because genius, intelligence, and even talent are larger than life and so inaccessible to most people. If, in the whole universe, there are five hundred people who, compared with infinite mediocrity, have a touch of Shakespeare and Leonardo in them, is it not only fair to grant these five hundred healthy minds the same thing that is lavished on Monsieur Donnay's audiences--the relief of not seeing on the stage what they don't understand; the active pleasure of participating in the creation of the play and of anticipation?”",
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                        "text": "“ Money Facts The Lira was the basic unit of Italian currency from 1861, when Ital was unified, to 2002. That year, Italy adopted the euro, the currency of the European Union (EU). Today, fifteen EU states use the euro. One euro is divided into 100 cents. Bills come in values of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, and 500 euros. Coins come in values of 1 and 2 euros as well as 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 cents. In 2008, US$1.00 equaled about 0.63 euros, and 1.00 euro equaled US$1.58. On the front of each euro note is an image of a window or a gateway. On the back is a picture of a bridge. These images do not represent any actual bridges or windows. Instead, they are examples from different historical periods. Each country designs its own euro coins. Italy chose to honor its greatest artists. Its 2-euro coin shows a portrait by the Renaissance artist Raphael. The 1-euro coin shows a drawing of the human body by Leonardo da Vinci. Other Italian coins show a statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Sandro Botticelli’s painting Birth of Venus. The 1-cent coin, the smallest, features Castel del Monte, a thirteenth-century castle near Bari.”",
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                        "text": "“Leonardo da Vinci, was brought to the Vatican in 1513 by the new pope, Leo X, and given a list of commissions to create for the greater glory of the pope and his family. After three years of living in the papal palace and exploring Rome, the great Leonardo had produced almost nothing. The furious Pope Leo decided to have a surprise showdown with the capricious artist and intimidate him into completing some of his commissions. In the middle of the night, surrounded by several imposing Swiss Guardsmen, the pope burst through the door to Leonardo’s private palace chambers, thinking to shake him out of a sound sleep. Instead, he was horrified to find Leonardo wide awake, with a pair of grave robbers, in the midst of dissecting a freshly stolen corpse—right under the pope’s own roof. Pope Leo let out a nonregal scream and had the Swiss soldiers immediately pack up Leonardo’s belongings and throw them and the divine Leonardo himself outside the fortress wall of the Vatican, never to return again. Shortly afterward, Leonardo decided it was probably healthier to get out of Italy and move to France, where he spent the rest of his days. This, by the way, is why the great Italian genius’s most famous oil paintings, including the Mona Lisa, are all in Paris, in the Louvre museum.”",
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                        "text": "“When you travel you become invisible if you want. I do want. I like to be the observer. What makes these people who they are Could I feel at home here No one expects you to have the stack of papers back by Tuesday or to check messages or to fertilize the geraniums or to sit full of dread in the waiting room at the protologist’s office. When travelling you have the delectable possibility of not understanding a word of what is said to you. Language becomes simply a musical background for watching bicycles zoom along a canal calling for nothing from you. Even better if you speak the language you catch nuances and make more contact with people. Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full of choice free to visit the stately pleasure domes make love in the morning sketch a bell tower read a history of Byzantium stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna dei fusi. You open as in childhood and – for a time – receive this world. There’s the visceral aspect too – the huntress who is free. Free to go Free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.”",
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