"It's often our best friends who make us fall"

-- Victor Hugo

“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.”

Source : Interview with Carlo Pescio, www.eptacom.net. June 1997.
“The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.”
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
“Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Charming the Prince”, p.55, Bantam
“We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.”
“SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.”
“[Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is the hidden placeholder in the Barthesian equation.”

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