"We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning."

-- Bernd Becher

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“everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.”
“We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.”
“Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?”
“I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.”
“Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.”

Source : Bruno Walter, James Austin Galston (1946). “Theme and Variations: An Autobiography”, New York, Knopf
“Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.”
“There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness, beguilements, buffooneries, loud voices, 'the sound of battle and garments rolled in blood,' the anthologist is quietly ensuring the immortality of somebody else.”
“It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.”

Source : John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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