"Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us"

-- Margaret Beckett

#Business Quotes #Impact Quotes #Long Quotes

“I like someone who can take the reins, who knows what they want and is strong with me.”
“There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.”
“He, who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.”
“If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God , if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.”
“You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.”

Source : "Lou Reed" by Stuart Berman, pitchfork.com. October 28, 2013.
“Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.”
“Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.”
“One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.' It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful.”

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