William McDonough Quotes
If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.
Quotes to Explore
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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She Beyonce is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.
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If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.
