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“The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.”
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“The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.”
Source : "To be a good builder, you need a feel for what surrounds you. Christopher Alexander knows." by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2006.
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“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
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“Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant ra~onale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.”
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“That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”
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“Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.”
Source : "Fictional character: Victoria "V.I." Warshawski". "V.I. Warshawski", www.imdb.com. 1991.
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“I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.”
Source : Interview with Nima Naderi, tennisconnected.com. April 8, 2010.
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“I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.”
Source : Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”