"The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture."

-- Philip Johnson

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“Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.”

Source : Rebecca Goldstein (1993). “The Mind-Body Problem”, Penguin Group USA
“... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.”

Source : Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.75, Random House
“At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.”
“That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.”
“Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.”
“Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity â€” which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.”
“I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.”

Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.10, Penguin
“Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection from parents teachers and role models that can teach them about the danger, and keep them safe from sexual exploitation. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.”

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