"Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence."

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Source : Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.136, Island Press

Leon Krier

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“The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.”
“I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers”
“I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.”

Source : "World: Common Man's President". During campaign stops in 1961, Time, content.time.com. November 24, 1961.
“The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.”
“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.”
“The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.”
“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
“Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a prospective symbol of personal synthesis and of the future of humankind. Like a work of art that sets us on the pathway to new discoveries, adolescence promotes new meanings by mobilizing energies that were initially invested in the past.”

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