"A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy."

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Source : "Words of Art: Inspiring Quotes from the Masters". Book published by Adams Media, 2013.

Walter Gropius

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“The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command.”
“I have more influence now than when I had the power.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.”
“You have to be selfish to be an actor.”
“Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.”
“When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.”
“The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth”

Source : Cherríe Moraga, Irma Mayorga (2001). “The Hungry Woman”
“Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.”

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