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“An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.”
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“He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of flowers you like.I like them all.Yeah?Yeah.He tries to hand them to me, but then remembers the cast. I'll put them in water.Betty swoops in the room ridiculously fast and she grabs the flowers out of Nick's hands. I'll take care of them. You lovebirds just sit on the couch and think swooning things at each other.”
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“By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.”
Source : Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.25, Indiana University Press
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“I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.”
Source : "CEO Speaker Series: It's a New World: So What Should We Do? with Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock". www.cfr.org. February 29, 2012. 
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“The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.”
Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee
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“I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.”
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“The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer”
Source : Aaron Betsky, Erik Adigard (2000). “Architecture must burn”, Gingko Pr Inc
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“It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.”
Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.120
