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“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.”
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“There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.”
Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
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“People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.”
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“My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.”
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“Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.”
Source : "Lion of Hollywood" by Scott Eyman, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 2005.
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“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.”
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“If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.”
Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
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“Today's decisions are tomorrow's realities.”
Source : Tim Storey (2008). “Utmost Living: Creating and Savoring Your Best Life Now”, p.228, Harmony