"It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony."

-- Henri Matisse

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“Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our answer, as you might guess, is: No! It would be easyfor us to capitulate to the runaway bull market in growth and technology stocks. And foolhardy. And irresponsible. And unconscionable. It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.”
“The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.”
“I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.”
“The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.”
“First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!”
“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isnâ€™t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.”

Source : "Turning On The Light At Times Of Loss" by Anne Naylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.
“If the word police want to come and get me, they can come and get me. If someone wants to blog about me, fine. The bloggers can come and get me. I clearly say the n-word in public, eight times. I think that's the count.”
“We should work for simple, good, undecorated things”

Source : Alvar Aalto (1970). “Synopsis”, Birkhauser

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