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Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

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Edith Wharton

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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One can remain alive. . . if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

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Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

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Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

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whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

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