"Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us."

-- Alain de Botton

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“Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.”
“When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.”
“...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.”
“I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.”
“As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.”
“But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least....”

Source : Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.192, Courier Corporation
“According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.16, Columbia University Press

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