"I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth."

-- William Herschel

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“I think in a way nobody doesn't work anymore. Even moms who say, 'I am out of the workforce.' They may be writing mommy blogs with no expectation of making money, but they are building an onramp for when they do go back.”

Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com
“Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
“I like to try to hit all of my dives.”
“I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.”
“I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.”
“Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?”
“We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.”
“... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.”

Source : Nicole Brossard (2005). “Fluid Arguments: Essays Written in French and English”, Mercury Press (Canada)

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