"Function influence but does not dictate form"

-- Eero Saarinen

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“Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.”

Source : John Stott (2014). “The Message of Acts”, p.27, InterVarsity Press
“...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.”

Source : John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.50, Penguin
“We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.”
“The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends.”

Source : Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr
“I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.”
“In the madness, you have to find calm.”
“Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.”
“Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.”

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