"The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws."

-- Alexandre Dumas

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“The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.”
“Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.”
“According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.”
“Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.”
“Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.”
“Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.”

Source : "The Architect of a Different Kind of Organization" by Jena Mcgregor, www.fastcompany.com. June 1, 2005.
“May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.”
“All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.”

Source : "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers". Book by Carl L. Becker (Chapter II, pp. 43-44), 1932.

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