"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."

-- Philip Johnson

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“Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.”
“When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.”
“No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.”
“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.”

Source : Eliphas Levi (2000). “The Great Secret, Or, Occultism Unveiled”, p.174, Weiser Books
“Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.”
“Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it.”

Source : "Goldie Hawn Talks ‘MindUP’ and Her Mission to Bring Children Happiness". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.
“It always takes two. There's the speaker and the listener, you and the audience. You've worked long hours and it comes down to that moment, that performance. The goal isn't just to improve yourself, but to transport people.”
“For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It seeks to be praised for its intention more than for what it is saying.”

Source : Stephen Dobyns (2011). “Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry”, p.59, Macmillan

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