"Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley. This art I acquired rather late in life; it fulfilled a dream, of which the first traces were labyrinths on the blotting papers in my school notebooks."

-- Walter Benjamin

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“We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.”
“What happened to society? I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision.”

Source : "Glenn Beck And Craig T. Nelson Talk About Not Paying Taxes Ever Again, For Some Reason" By Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2009.
“The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.”
“The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.”

Source : "Bootsy Collins Brings Back The Funk". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.
“I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.”
“If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.”
“Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.”

Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.110, Open Road Media

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