"I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles."

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Stewart Udall

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“After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.”

Source : "Maverick mayor: 'Eco-architecture not ego-architecture!'". Interview with Zara Bilgrami, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.
“This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire”
“But Iâ€™ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.”
“When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.”
“No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.4
“It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.”
“Marriage is an undertaking that requires focused time and attention to prepare effectively.”
“I'd rather walk in the dark with Jesus than to dance in the light on my own”

Source : Wayne Watson (1998). “The Way Home: Inspirations of a Lifetime”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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