"There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its construction. A damaged building can always be repaired if it still has life, but a dead building will never be whole again."

-- Natsuhiko Kyogoku

#Age Quotes #Balance Quotes #Construction Quotes

“I liked the idea of working outside, using my body and my mind together. I haven't been disappointed! Land surveying can be very physical work, but there is a strong intellectual and technological component as well.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”
“I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.”
“Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.”
“We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.”
“[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.”
“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe”
“But rules cannot substitute for character.”

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