Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
The interior of the Zigana Mosque, a beehivelike geodesic dome composed of pointed arches of honey-colored stone, was based on al-Biruni’s sacred geometry.
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The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since.
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
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Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.
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Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.
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As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
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Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.
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They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys)
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
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Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.
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What was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Growth is always there in the MPC's scheme of things; we don't lose sight of that, but not at the cost of inflation.
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President Arroyo's actions could usher in a new era of press censorship and intimidation.
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I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
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When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.
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As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.
