"Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die."

-- Daniel Burnham

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“We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.”
“We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.”
“When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.”
“Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything but worry. Learn to write so, my son, and you can call yourself a writer.”
“Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.”
“All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly the same, while every day new and different florists' species arise from the true species so-called by Botanists, and when they have arisen they finally revert to the original forms. Accordingly to the former have been assigned by Nature fixed limits, beyond which they cannot go: while the latter display without end the infinite sport of Nature.”
“There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.”
“Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.”

Source : Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. October 14, 1998.

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