"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one."

-- Luis Barragan

#Gardening Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“A good beginning makes a good end.”
“We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh....”
“Kids have to be taught to hate,”
“The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him”

Source : Menachem Begin's speech at the National Defense College, www.nytimes.com. August 8, 1982.
“A Work of Art... is not a living thing ...that walks or runs.But the making of a life.That which gives you a reaction.To some it is the wonder of Man's Fingers.To some it is the wonder of the Mind.To some it is the wonder of Technique.And to some it is how Real it is.To some, how Transcendent it is.Like the 5th Symphony it presents itself.”
“The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.”
“Listen upâ€”thereâ€™s no war that will end all wars,â€™ Crow tells me. â€˜War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.”
“A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.”

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