"Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties."

-- Edward Abbey

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“The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.”
“Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.”
“I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.”

Source : Eero Saarinen, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Donald Albrecht (2006). “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future”, p.353, Yale University Press
“Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.”
“There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.”
“Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.”
“Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.”

Source : Jefferson Smith (2011). “Strange Places”, p.213, Indie Ink Publishing
“How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.”

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