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“To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.”
Source : Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.9, New York : Oxford University Press
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“The Internet is not a thing, a place, a single technology, or a mode of governance. It is an agreement.”
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“How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!”
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“As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.”
Source : "Michael Gove's 'anti-Mr Men' speech in full". Speech in Brighton College by Michael Gove, politics.co.uk. May 09, 2013.
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“personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble”
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“They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.”
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“I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result.”
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“As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.”