"An important work of architecture will create polemics."

-- Richard Meier

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“By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.”

Source : Wendy Shalit (2000). “A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue”, p.212, Simon and Schuster
“Art comes from life, not from the studio”
“Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.”
“I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.”
“No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them.”
“You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.”
“I've also found that at the bottom of all of these qualities is love. If you have enough love you have enough courage, enough love then you have patience.”

Source : "An Interview with Dorothy MacLean, co-founder of Findhorn". Interview with Tanis Helliwell. Excerpted from a conversation in 1998, www.iitransform.com. March 2, 2015.
“I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.”

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