"Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic."

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Source : "Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture". Essay by Denise Scott Brown, in "Architecture: A Place for Women", book edited by Ellen Perry Berkeley and Matilda McQuaid, www.mascontext.com. 1989.

Denise Scott Brown

#People Quotes #Magic Quotes #Way Quotes

“The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.”
“Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics.”

Source : Melvin Schwartz (2012). “Principles of Electrodynamics”, p.1, Courier Corporation
“The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have”
“There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.”

Source : "Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works". Book ediited by International Publishers, 1975.
“Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.”
“Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.”
“Hey, come on, I've seen younger faces on money. Money.”
“I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.”

Source : New River Media Interview, www.pbs.org.

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