"I try to create homes, not houses."

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Louis Kahn

#Home Quotes #House Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.”
“Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.”

Source : Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.88, Hachette UK
“We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.”

Source : Michael Horton (2011). “Putting Amazing Back Into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel”, p.46, Baker Books
“There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of enjoyment they procure, but we must not separate it from the price at which it was purchased.”
“Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.”
“Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.”
“I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.”
“...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia.”

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