"Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society."

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Source : "Form and Function", www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2009.

Walter Gropius

#Design Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.”
“Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called life and taught by a teacher who is none other than self-experience only.”
“I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.”
“... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.”

Source : Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”
“There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.”
“When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.”

Source : "GOP Struggles for Salvation". Austin American-Statesman, November 23, 2008.
“Two are better than one if two act as one.”
“A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.”

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