"I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act"

-- Jurgen Habermas

#Political Quotes #September 11 Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.”
“Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.”
“When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do. Engineers cannot seem to get this through their heads. These countermeasures are all based on too narrow a definition of what is wrong. Human measures and countermeasures proceed from limited scientific truth and judgment. A true solution can never come about in this way.”
“I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.”

Source : Marcel Breuer (1963). “Buildings and Projects: 1921-1961”
“Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.”
“American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.”
“I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person”
“When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.”

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