"The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals."

-- Le Corbusier

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“The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.”

Source : Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”
“You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.”
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
“We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.”
“Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.”
“I’m like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power!”
“Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.”
“A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.”

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