"When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light."

-- Richard Meier

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“We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.”
“I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.”

Source : "Stephen King's Wife Spins P'Cola Yarn". Interview with Sam Baltrusis, www.inweekly.net. June 15, 2006.
“How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.”
“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.”
“If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. And by chance there happen to be such women, for, as I touched on before, just as women have more delicate bodies than men, weaker and less able to perform many tasks, so do they have minds that are freer and sharper whenever they apply themselves.”

Source : "The Book of the City of Ladies". Book by Christine de Pizan, transl. by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Part I, ch. 27, p. 63, 1983.
“Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger groupÂ Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.”
“Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of oneâ€™s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...Thereâ€™ll be new fetishes forever. I feel that the 21st century is all about fetish.”
“The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.”

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