"The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing to him who delights in numbers, spurning alike the wild irrationality of life and baffling complexity of nature's laws."

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Source : John Lighton Synge (1957). “Kandelman's Krim: A Realistic Fantasy”

John Lighton Synge

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“The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.”

Source : "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.
“There is another very important lesson: You must learn to be equipped to face your battles this year and be properly positioned on the wall. Pioneers will be challenged as they plow new ground, but I have new Body Armor I want to give you that will protect you in the days to come.”
“Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?”
“That's all I have to say about that.”
“In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'”

Source : "Hargrave Military Academy: Catalog and Announcements for session 1944-1945", 1944.
“I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.”
“Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress.”

Source : "Kiera Cass: A Natural Selection". Interview with Beth Accomando, www.comic-con.org. April 7, 2014.
“Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?”

Source : Drew Brees (2010). “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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