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“Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.”
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“In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable”
Source : Garrett James Hardin (1999). “The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia”, p.140, Oxford University Press on Demand
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“I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.”
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“We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.”
Source : "Mary McDonnell Talks ‘Battlestar’ Finale". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 23, 2009.
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“It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.”
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
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“And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.”
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“The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.”
Source : "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.