"Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy."

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Source : Alvar Aalto, Karl Fleig, Elissa Aalto (1990). “Alvar Aalto: 1963-1970 (3. Aufl.)”

Alvar Aalto

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“I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of "patriotism" is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a "patriotic American" .”

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“Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.”
“If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come â€” sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected â€” and it balances.”
“Education beats at the heart of sustainability.”
“I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.”
“I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.”
“I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.”
“But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.”

Source : Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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