"I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial."

-- Rafael Moneo

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“There has been only one war fought literally worldwide, affecting every living thing, and that has been men's all-out, non-stop, millennia-long war against women, a war that not only continues to this moment without the slightest abatement but intensifies hourly.”

Source : Sonia Johnson (1991). “The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered”
“How many times do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:- So many times do I love again.”

Source : Thomas Lovell Beddoes, “Song From Torrismond”
“I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.”
“That's grossing money for other people that has a multiplying factor, but the government doesn't see that. It doesn't see that making a film or culture or art is part of our economy. But the main reason is this, it's part of our identity. I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual and he's stops being an individual.”
“How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.”
“The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors, who occasionally exercise their contractual right to withdraw currency (the ungrateful cads); (2) to control entry of newcomers into the bankers' cartel (interlopers); (3) to keep the stock market from collapsing in a panic, thereby persuading depositors to withdraw currency”
“... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).”
“The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.”

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