"The Bow’s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the building’s exterior."

-- Jeanne Gang

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“For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.”

Source : "Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org. December 26, 2011.
“The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise.”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing
“If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.”

Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (1985). “Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel”, p.28, Augsburg Books
“I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?”
“We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.”
“Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children.”
“Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.”

Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
“I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.”

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