K. If all of the world´s cultural heritage (sports, music, fashion, architecture, literature, painting, etc..) was contained in a time capsule, what would you include to demonstrate the legacy of your country? PowerPoint Essay São Paulo – Brazil
Felipe Natal Abdo MBA applicant April 2014 intake
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My land has palm trees Where the thrush sings. The birds that sing in here Do not sing as they do there. Our skies have more stars, Our valleys have more flowers. Our forests have more life, Our lives have more love. In dreaming, alone, at night, I find more pleasure in there. My land has palm trees Where the thrush sings. My land has beauties Who cannot be found in here; In dreaming — alone, at night — I find more pleasure in there. My land has palm trees, Where the thrush sings. May God never allow That I die before I return; That I do not see the beauties That I cannot find in here; That I do not see the palm trees Where the thrush sings.
Gonçalves Dias, 1843, Coimbra, Portugal
Brazil
Sports
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“The Rhythm of Pele and Tostão confirms the existence of God”.
Armando Nogueira
“Born to play football” .
Phrase recorded on the shirt
“Brazil is empty on a Sunday afternoon, right? Look here at this samba and the country of football The background of this country along the avenues Either land and grass, Brazil is only football Ninety minutes of excitement and joy Forget the home and work Life is outside And everything? Is outside Hell? Is outside The pains? They are outside”.
Milton Nascimento
Sports
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“I have no idols. I admire work, dedication
and competence.”
“And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.”
“Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.”
Architecture
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“Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.”
“Form follows beauty.”
“I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.”
“I am a Brazilian before I am an
architect. I cannot separate
the two.”
“Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.”
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“I invent everything in my paintings. And what I saw or felt, I stylize”
“Every screen is born blank. The decision to color is all yours”
Arts
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Arts
“For the roses, someone said, gardeners are eternal.”
“I did not have children. I didn't cooperate in the expansion of human misery.”
“Life... is an enormous lottery: the prizes are few, the failures innumerable..”
“Madness is an island lost in the ocean of rationality.”
In the Middle of the Road In the middle of the road there was a stone there was a stone in the middle of the road there was a stone in the middle of the road there was a stone. Never should I forget this event in the life of my fatigued retinas. Never should I forget that in the middle of the road there was a stone there was a stone in the middle of the road in the middle of the road there was a stone.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Arts
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Music
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“Tall and tan and young and lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking And when she passes, each one she passes goes "a-a-ah!" When she walks she's like a samba that Swings so cool and sways so gentle, That when she passes, each one she passes goes "a-a-ah!" Oh, but I watch her so sadly How can I tell her I love her? Yes, I would give my heart gladly But each day when she walks to the sea She looks straight ahead not at me Tall and tan and young and lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking And when she passes I smile, but she doesn't see She just doesn't see No she doesn't see”
Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes
Music
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Key Brazilian
Inventions
“On the way to the Eiffel Tower, not even once I looked out over the rooftops of Paris: I was floating on a sea of white and blue, seeing nothing but my goal."
“Inventions are above all the result of a stubborn work”
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Do not put the cart before the horse.
Proverbs
Never put off till tomorrow what you
can do today.
A wise man learns at the fool's
expense.
Love is blind, so you have to feel your
way.
God writes straight even on wavy lines.
Haste is the mother of imperfection.
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