"The only way you can predict the future is to build it."

-- Alan Kay

“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”
“There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.”
“The more man distinguishes himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as the subject, as an "I" to whom the world is an object, the more does he tend to confuse himself with God, to confuse his spirit with the spirit of God, and to regard his reason as Divine Reason.”
“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.”
“Sex is normal and natural, and we've made it abnormal and unnatural.”

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“I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.”
“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.”
“Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.”

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