"Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No."

-- Eli Broad

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“I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.”
“The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.”
“In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live in harmony with the Infinite. The highest teachings of the Christ reveal most clearly the principle that no soul was created to be a mere helpless instrument in the hands of Supreme Power, but that every soul should act and live in perfect oneness with that Power. And the promise is that we all are not only to do the things that Christ did, but even greater things.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.339, Penguin
“It is clear to me that the financial sector, including CNBC, loves central banks”
“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

Source : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.56, Princeton Architectural Press
“I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.”
“Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.”
“A wise man can be a fool in love.”

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