"Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends, and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live."

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Source : "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.

Oscar Niemeyer

#Bad Ass Quotes #Important Quotes #World Quotes

“O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.”
“Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.”
“Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.”
“The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.”
“When life gives you lemons, you exchange them at the store for something more edible.”
“To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian theology, by A. Clarke, selected from his writings, with a life of the author by S. Dunn”, p.70
“I want to hit line droves. I want to hit my doubles, my singles, get on base.”
“I'll do whatever it takes to win.”

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