"Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall."

-- Louis Kahn

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“We become a Co-worker with God at every step of the spiritual path. This is a universal law. There is great hope here for those who are sincere in finding out who and what they are, becoming a Co-worker with God, and realising the Kingdom of Heaven while still living in the body. The key lies within you.”
“Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.”
“I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.”

Source : "A Telling North Korean Journey" by James Brooke, www.nytimes.com. December 03, 2002.
“There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech.... A million voters with IQs below 60 have their ears glued to the radio. It takes four days' hard work to concoct a speech without a sensible word in it. Next a dam must be opened somewhere. Four dry Senators get drunk and make a painful scene. The Presidential automobile runs over a dog. It rains.”
“A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.”

Source : Sarah Susanka, Grey Crawford (2002). “Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home”, p.9, Taunton Press
“If you are going to work hard anyway, you might as well get rich...and the quicker the better!”
“Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.”
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”

Source : Russell L. Ackoff (1986). “Management in Small Doses”, Wiley

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