"The Germans are often too bureaucratic, too fixated on rules and not risk-oriented enough. And some of their officials have the feeling that they need to make everything in the cityscape look nice and pretty as quickly as possible. That was particularly apparent in the former East Germany after reunification. Then cities sometimes get a bit too neat and tidy."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Charles Landry

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“Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.”
“As a kid, my brother and I would read the same novel, we'd memorize entire pages, reenact the book as it's characters, and would immerse in playing like that for hours. I suppose it was a natural follow up, wanting to still play in a similar fashion, but as an adult.”
“I'll always stand by the first 'Batman'. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.”

Source : "Michael Keaton Endorses Chris Nolan's Batman Flicks, Looks Forward To 'Dark Knight'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. January 21, 2008.
“Keep reading books, but remember that a bookâ€™s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
“I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.”
“Thereâ€™s a phrase in Buddhism, â€˜Beginnerâ€™s mind.â€™ Itâ€™s wonderful to have a beginnerâ€™s mind.”
“Every person that comes to court deserves a fair process.”
“Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment or, in other words, his right to be rich.”

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