Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

Author: Thom Mayne

Author: Thom Mayne

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Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of li

Author: Shirley Jackson
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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar

Author: Laura Riding
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What kind of kids live in Mulhoney, Wisconsin? Would they like me? Would I like them? Have they ever

Author: Joan Bauer
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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Author: Christopher Marlowe
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Then it’s settled.” He pulled her into an embrace. “It’s been a long night for both of us. How about

Author: Stacey O'Neale
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Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

Author: Philip K. Dick
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When you are turning pagesif you are in the midst of a really good writerof the very rare kindhis or

Author: Cathrine Lødøen
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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away

Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how t

Author: Oscar Wilde
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I looked up "skin" in the encyclopedia and confirmed that, sure enough, it is the human body's large

Author: Lauren Slater
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I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up

Author: Vera Wang
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Freedom, if it emerges like magic from consciousness (like the conjuring of consciousness itself!) s

Author: Steven L. Peck
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If for some reason we get separated, I want you to wait for me. I’ll find you, I promise. - Gabriel

Author: Sylvain Reynard
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You can not even roughly guess where you can reach in life if you pursue the path of self-education.

Author: Deepak Burfiwala
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Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is hu

Author: Gautama Buddha
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My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Author: Carrie Underwood
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Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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“Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that.”“E

Author: John Wyndham
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The worst thing you can do is make money at the expense of losing your time.

Author: J.R. Rim
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Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The so

Author: Cassandra Clare
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Never fear to pursue your dream.

Author: Rabeh Siddqi
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All the inspiration that you need is already inside you. You just have to be determined enough to le

Author: Jason Landry
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When a man is small he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his v

Author: M. F. K. Fisher
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[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly

Author: Seneca
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We’re in an underground vault, and here’s my first order: You’re going to do everything I tell you t

Author: Jettie Necole
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On Sundays Mom invariably ran out of money, which is when she cracked eggs into the skillet over cub

Author: Anya von Bremzen
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That's what I like most about her; she isn't fearless. She's scared, but she keeps fighting. She has

Author: Jen Wilde
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The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring

Author: Agona Apell
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they

Author: Will Rogers
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one

Author: C.S. Lewis
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Happiness is found in the simplest of things. Happiness is found in gratitude, in a kept promise, in

Author: Steve Maraboli
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Let me diefrom having being drunk onindigo skies, my liver...overflowing with stars.

Author: Sanober Khan
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To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Author: Francoise Sagan
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The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state

Author: Deepak Chopra
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When confidence is there, conviction is easy.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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If I can bring Him nothing but my tears, He will put them with His own tears in His own bottle for H

Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Sometimes you don't want better but just what is YOURS..

Author: RD
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The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't

Author: Alek Wek
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I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two diff

Author: Kevin Powers
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Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when

Author: Athol Fugard
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Messy, isn't it?

Author: Richard Brautigan
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Sometimes those who challenge you most.. Teach you best.

Author: Pravinee Hurbungs
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NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday!

Author: Yukiru Sugisaki
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the par

Author: Samuel Johnson
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All I need is you even if I don't know if I can't have you.

Author: Fatma Alfalasi
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I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

Author: Martin Luther
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There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others and simply follow

Author: Linda Harry
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I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter

Author: Jenny Han
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One needs longing to live and enemies make one long for them.

Author: Aporva Kala
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If you don't know where you are going, you can arrive at any destination.

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It is important not only to read God's Word but to interpret God's world in the light of the Word.

Author: Cindy Jacobs
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

Author: Miguel de Cervantes
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I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they mak

Author: Jeffrey Archer
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...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.

Author: Brady Udall
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Peace is possible with understanding of each other.Understanding is love for one another.

Author: Unknown
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You are infinitely capable. You don't live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire

Author: Michael Sanders
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Desire speaks, passion shouts, lust screams, and love whispers.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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In my better sense of mind, I know that I'm far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth kee

Author: Phil Anselmo
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She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort make friends everywhere and

Author: Louisa May Alcott
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There’s got to be some scientific study somewhere that proves your boyfriend’s sweater will keep you

Author: Adam Silvera
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In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy

Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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We are all we have

Author: Saji Ijiyemi
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You point your feet out too much when you walk,” Will went on. He was busy polishing an apple on his

Author: Cassandra Clare
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Author: Leo Buscaglia
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Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

Author: Byron Dorgan
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Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better

Author: Judith Orloff
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If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let’s review the menu.

Author: Agatha Christie
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In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memori

Author: Michael Crichton
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Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a typ

Author: Douglas Adams
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Put your future in good hands- your own

Author: selvia trimawarni
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Truth demands progress and change, and is always for the benefit of all souls—even if you must trave

Author: Molly Friedenfeld
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For a time he read his Neil Diamond bible by the firelight. He paused, twisting nervously at his goa

Author: Joe Hill
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Love is being stupid together.

Author: Paul Valery
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You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the ed

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Your dreams will be your reality if you don't fear them and have enough courage to act on them.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero.

Author: Amit Kalantri
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Tradition is the code that keeps change in lock. If you refuse change, you are likely to rust and gu

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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Porn: the only unconditional love in the world.

Author: Carl-John X Veraja
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I get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Fr

Author: Maureen Johnson
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Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagr

Author: Ben Shapiro
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How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

Author: Gordon B. Hinckley
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Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend o

Author: Joseph Bruchac
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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Author: Yann Martel
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Author: Allan Dare Pearce
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.

Author: Ovid
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As a child you received messages from your family to keep your mouth shut and remain invisible. You

Author: Beverly Engel
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The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as

Author: Confucius
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Truth is a T-Rex. Let it out and you won't need to defend it. It'll defend itself.

Author: Abhijit Naskar
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Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Author: Vincent van Gogh
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary go

Author: Simone Weil
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance

Author: Leo Tolstoy
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with

Author: Joseph Campbell
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In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and sp

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where lan

Author: Emily Perkins
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Life is a test. A test of Character and Strength, experience is our study guide... so remember what

Author: Sarah Funkhouser
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If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concept

Author: Denise Riley
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A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the rea

Author: J.S.B. Morse
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In politics nothing is contemptible.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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We always glorify war, but why? We have war memorials everywhere but I never saw a peace memorial ye

Author: Debasish Mridha