"Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty."

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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Ada Louise Huxtable

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“I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.”
“Every crisis offers you extra desired power.”
“Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.”
“But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects which dissented from the catholic church were afflicted and oppressed by the triumph of Christianity. Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinacy; and that a seasonable application of moderate severities might save those unhappy men from the danger of an everlasting condemnation.”
“There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.”
“I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.”

Source : "Homeless and Living In a Van" by Sly Stone, www.tmz.com. September 25, 2011.
“I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?”
“The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.”

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