Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
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Fundamentals make the market.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
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I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
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Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
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Nothing matters except life and the love you make.
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I was trying my best to calm everybody down, because we're going to make mistakes. We've just got to be a little bit smarter with the ball.
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Behold, I make all things new.
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This is fun! I wish that Toyota could make cars like this again!" (in the Toyota AE86).
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To innovate is not to reform.
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Happy? Poor, ordinary, everyday word. But what could one say, how could one describe it? It was as though she could hardly stay inside herself, it was as though she were too small to hold so much of joy, it was as though she were washed through with light. And how astonishing to feel this sheer bliss, for here she was, not doing and not going to do a single unselfish thing, not going to do a thing she didn't want to do. ... Now she had taken off all her goodness and left it behind her like a heap in rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy.
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From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.
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Each material is only what we make it.
