Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
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I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.
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I think the public perception of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable has changed. Everybody has to be politically correct.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.
