Brazilian National Standards Organization
Overview
 
The Brazilian National Standards Organization, usually rendered in Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 as Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT), is the normative body which is responsible for technical standards in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, and intends to promote technological development
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

 in the country. It is a non-profit organization
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 which was founded in 1940.
Quotations

The flowers anew returning seasons bring,But beauty faded has no second spring.

Ambrose Philips, Pastoral

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

The year's at the spring,And day's at the morn;Morning's at seven;The hill-side's dew-pearl'd;The lark's on the wing;The snail's on the thorn;God's in His heaven--All's right with the world ! 

Robert Browning, Pippa's Song in Pippa Passes

Is it so small a thingTo have enjoy'd the sun,To have lived light in the spring,To have loved, to have thought, to have done;

Matthew Arnold, "From the Hymn of Empedocles"

Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Wake Up Call, 1992

O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 scene 3

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrushThrough the echoing timber does so rinse and wringThe ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring"

 
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