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“Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us.”
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“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
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“I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to decide.”
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“You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony”
Source : "The Shard: Renzo Piano's great glass elevator". Interview With Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2012. 
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“We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.”
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“Look around less, imagine more.”
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“If I am going to be the future bloody Queen of England I'm going to wear that dress once because I'm giving up the rest of my life, all of my privacy. At least I can get a new dress every day!”
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“Who you are is less important than what you seem.”
Source : Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.252, Penguin
