"To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious."

-- Janusz Korczak

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“Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they [patterns in the space] are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.”

Source : "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.
“Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.”
“To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.”
“Allah(God) is the greatest friend.”
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay.”
“I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.”
“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
“Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.”

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