Clarence Stein famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
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The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
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A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness
-- Clarence Stein
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We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
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The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
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We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.
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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.
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