"When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty."

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Source : Christopher Alexander (1977). “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction”, p.747, Oxford University Press

Christopher Alexander

#Light Quotes #Two Sides Quotes #People Quotes

“Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?”

Source : Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.159, Spectra
“Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.”
“Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.”

Source : Ben Shapiro (2015). “Ben Shapiro: Volume I”, p.7, Creators Publishing
“Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. ... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love”

Source : Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.13, Transaction Publishers
“If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.”
“It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.”
“Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.”
“In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.”

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