"Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it."

-- Ada Louise Huxtable

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“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”
“Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.”
“Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.”
“I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed”

Source : FaceBook post by Lisa Kudrow from Aug 12, 2011
“When we're connected to others, we become better people.”

Source : Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.186, Hachette UK
“Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.”
“One of my secrets is to joke all the time.”
“If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.”

Source : "The Psychology of Religion". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1927.

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