"Elegance in objects is everybodyâ€™s right, and it shouldnâ€™t cost more than ugliness."

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Source : "The Shape of Things to Come" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.

Paola Antonelli

#Cost Quotes #Elegance Quotes #Ugliness Quotes

“A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.”
“Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.”
“You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!”
“If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.”
“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.”

Source : "There Are ‘Tens Of Billions’ Of Habitable Planets In Our Galaxy, Astronomer Seth Shostak Says" by Lee Speigel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.
“Music and friends are the most important to me really, it's all I ever do.”
“We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.”
“Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.”

Source : Wilhelm Reich (2013). “The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality”, p.3, Macmillan

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