"The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it."

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Source : Louis I. Kahn (1986). “Louis I. Kahn: l'uomo, il maestro”

Louis Kahn

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“I spent several years cooking on a line.”

Source : "Jose Garces Celebrates Cinco de Mayo" by Sarah Rosenbergtom McCarthy, abcnews.go.com. May 5, 2010.
“There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality, [and] they're powerful enough to cut growth in half.”

Source : "The Death of Innovation, the End of Growth". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.
“No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future”
“I like having people with me to lean on and write with and have fun with.”
“Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.”
“The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them.”
“We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.”
“We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.”

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