Bill Alexander Quotes

• The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

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• Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

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• Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

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• The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory – death.

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• Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.

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• The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.

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• The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.

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• The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

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• The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.

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• The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.

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Bill Alexander (10)

Birth:	2nd April, 1915
Death:	24th January, 1997
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Painter, Television Presenter

About

William "Bill" Alexander was a German painter, art instructor, and television host. He is best known as the creator and host of The Magic of Oil Painting and the The Art of Bill Alexander, television programs that ran on PBS in the United States. In the latter series, Alexander teamed with other wet-on-wet painters, including Lowell Speers, Robert Warren, Buck Paulson and others.

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