"Find optimism in the inevitable"

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Source : "City on the Gulf: Koolhaas Lays Out a Grand Urban Experiment in Dubai". www.nytimes.com. March 03, 2008.

Rem Koolhaas

#Optimism Quotes #Inevitable Quotes

“Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.”

Source : Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: A discourse of matter pertaining to religion”, p.202
“An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.”
“When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.”
“The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.”
“You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.”

Source : Holly Lisle (1992). “Fire in the Mist”, Baen Books
“In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.”

Source : George MacDonald (2007). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.248, Cosimo, Inc.
“Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.”
“You know all the money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense every year? Trillions of dollars? Correct? Trillions. Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world,which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, not one, we could, as one race, explore outer space together in peace forever”

Source : "Love All the People". New Edition,

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