"The number of African Americans in my profession is woefully small; about two percent of architects in the country are black. I'd like to see more diversity. That's why whenever I'm asked to speak at middle and high schools I always say yes."

-- Philip Freelon

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“Desiring is a part of dreaming.”
“The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.”

Source : Colin Wilson (1988). “The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders”
“Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.”
“Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.”

Source : "Julie Payette returns to space". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. February 4, 2009.
“Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.”

Source : Richard Mant (1828). “Biographical Notices of the Apostles, Evangelists and Other Saints: With Reflexions and Collects : Adapted to the Minor Festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland”, p.396
“it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”
“It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.”
“I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.”

Source : "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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