"The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s."

-- Martin Filler

#Successful Quotes #Cities Quotes #Batteries Quotes

“I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.”
“It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.”
“I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.”
“If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other.”
“Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.”

Source : John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière
“The shadow proves the sunshine.”
“And he's lost both right front tires.”
“I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.”

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