"Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle."

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Source : "Oscar Niemeyer, Architect Who Gave Brasilia Its Flair, Dies at 104" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, www.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

Oscar Niemeyer

#Country Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Jesus said, "I am the way [to heaven]." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.”
“Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.”

Source : "'Anti-gay' book puts Gove at centre of faith school teaching row" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.
“If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.99, iUniverse
“Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.”
“Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!”

Source : Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”
“Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.”
“One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.”

Source : "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.
“The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.”

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