"The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble."

-- Christopher Wren

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“My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.”
“We are all powerless as children, and money looms so powerfully... we don't grow up to claim our financial power until we look money directly in the eye, face our fears, and claim that power back.”
“The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible.”
“Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.”
“In an Italian household, there were two figures for me growing up - you had the Pope and you had Frank Sinatra, and, of course, Tony Bennett. And not necessarily in that order.”
“Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.”
“There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.”
“Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.”

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