Portraits of the Medici and their associates announce what Burckhardt called "the modern idea of fame, " a concept further explored, later on, in medals, busts, drawings and paintings of assorted (mostly male) notables, from clerics to humanist poets to merchants.
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There is another elephant in the room, which is what she describes as the "love-hate" relationship Americans have with the UK, its colonial past, and the idea that in the creation of modern-day America the very idea of a monarchy was considered then eschewed.
The paper says it ought to be an opportunity for a viable idea of modern, social democracy to emerge, but no candidate merits victory yet.
Dr. Atkinson figured that if a similar founder effect could be discerned in phonemes, it would support the idea that modern verbal communication originated on that continent and only then expanded elsewhere.
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Yet he still seems far from convinced about the idea of the modern branch.
The basic idea is that modern life strategy should resemble creating a company.
As Nassim Taleb points out, there is no word in English (or in any other language, ancient or modern) that conveys this idea.
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Simon Fanshawe, author of The Done Thing, a book about modern manners, says the idea will only be embraced outside times of crisis if there are authority figures organising it.
This has led some locals to consider a modern version of an old idea, the Homestead Act of 1862, which helped to populate the Plains by giving settlers up to 640 acres of land in exchange for a commitment to stay for five years.
The various laws and regulations have all changed over time to incorporate modern financial theory, including the idea that investing for income is the inappropriate investment policy.
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Modern critics should get over the idea that college might soon go away, and instead focus on how to make the experience better and more accessible to students from every walk of life.
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This argument can be paired with the idea that, in the modern world, the nation state is peculiarly wrong-sized for government.
His case dramatically illustrates the challenge that modern neuroscience is beginning to pose to the idea of free will.
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At any rate, like most of my friends, I had no idea what formula guaranteed placement in Modern Love.
For this reason, among others, Jaki says neither the ancient Greeks nor Romans produced modern science, which depends greatly on the idea of progress.
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It was Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement, who first conceived the idea of a marriage between sport and the arts.
The whole idea of space travel was represented something modern.
The problem is that with the success of the Enlightenment, science, and our modern culture, we seem to have discarded the idea of mythos as part of our mainstream culture.
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Smith had originally looked at his current house, a distinctly modern space built in the 1990s, with the idea of recommending it to the same clients who landed in his former home.
Idea is then free to innovate, to try modern designs, to reach out for something new and exciting.
If there is one idea that has been pre-eminent in the modern world, it is that every child should have the opportunity through schooling to rise as far as their talents can take them.
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"In 1993, most people didn't know what the Internet is all about, " says Shwed, who sensed the Internet would be big but had no idea it would grow to become as central to modern life as it has.
The idea was pioneered by the United States, the first modern democracy with a written constitution.
That it was division of labour which gave modern humanity its edge over the Neanderthals is not a completely new idea.
The idea of abstraction is so central to the history of modern art that it left its mark on the work of nonvisual artists as well.
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Despite the anonymity of most modern travel, or maybe because of it, intimacy is a persistent idea in hospitality.
Instead of being a defect, the idea of almost unlimited Commerce Clause powers is a fact of the modern world.
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While he has "no idea" what the secret is, he thinks Downton's "modern pace" compared with other costume dramas is key.
Another idea is to open up the licences to new bidders - effectively a modern version of an old-fashioned ITV franchise round.
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