"The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land."

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Source : Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

Arthur Erickson

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“Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.”
“I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.”
“I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic”
“Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.”
“I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life.”

Source : Daniel Taylor (1986). “The myth of certainty: the reflective Christian and the risk of commitment”, W Pub Group
“The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to the ideologue, who is likewise devoid of common sense, independent ego, culture, intuitive intelligence, etc.: all the ideologue has to orient himself by is the formalist or abstractivist directives inlaid in modern mass-culture. Both are forms of the True Believer, minds in whom factors of self-active life are reduced to negligibility and pathos reigns.”
“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”

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