"We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form."

-- William McDonough

#Water Quotes #Tree Quotes #Waste Quotes

“The president Donald Trump told the "New York Times" that he regrets appointing Jeff Sessions. And when a president expresses no confidence in a cabinet member, then that cabinet member owes the president his resignation. When the president does it publicly, which is something we just have never seen before, then that cabinet matter really has no choice from that minute forward, absolutely no choice.”
“I almost cried the other day listening to â€˜Vogueâ€™ by Madonna.”
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
“[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.35, Macmillan
“Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.”
“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.”
“I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.”

Source : Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

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