Louis Kahn Quotes
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
Edmund Morgan -
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving -
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
W. Clement Stone -
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
T. E. Lawrence -
I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
L.A. Reid -
Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
Adam Draper
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Fran Drescher -
My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
Faith Evans -
Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
Jack Canfield -
I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
Gabrielle Aplin -
Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
Fatema Mernissi
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
Ralph Ellison -
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
Zoltan Kodaly -
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
Aberjhani -
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
Abbie Cornish -
I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
Daniel Clowes
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The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
Maelle Gavet -
I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.
Eli Broad -
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
John Leo -
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
John Locke Nazareth -
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn
Ramakrishna -
In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
Louis Kahn