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Archibald MacLeish

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. American poet writer and the Librarian of Congress; of the Modernist school; won three Pulitzer Prizes


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Quote Left What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined. Quote Right
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Quote Left Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.... Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year Quote Right
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Quote Left To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers. Quote Right
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Quote Left We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. Quote Right
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Quote Left A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. Quote Right
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