"I'm not trying to become popular."

-- Jack Abramoff

“Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.”
“The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.”
“Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.”
“It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.”

Source : "Oscar Niemeyer Talks About Brasilia, Communism, Regrets". Interview with Michael Luongo, www.bloomberg.com. December 7, 2012.
“You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.”

Source : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists”, p.132, Random House
“I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.”
“No matter how entrenched in the imagination of the average Christian the image of a male God might be, theological tradition has never assigned sex to God.”

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