The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. - George Santayana

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Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

George Santayana

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

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Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

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Martin Filler

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

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Milan Kundera

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

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Gautama Buddha

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

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Isaac Newton

What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh. " Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh. "

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Sarah Shahi

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

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