December 2009
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When time is your own, there is no time.
– Paper Castle
Working out apparent contradictions, reconciling irreconcilables, finding...
– George Packer
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my dad says i can.
Me: Dad, can I make this Che?
Dad: You can make anything..the problem is you haven't tried.
For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause...
– Ted Kennedy at the 1980 DNC, appropriate for this weekend’s passed events.
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What a man hears he may doubt, what he sees he may possibly doubt, but what he...
– Seaman Knapp on reforming agriculture in the US, circa 1900s
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss...
– Eleanor Roosevelt via my a great brother.
Match power with prudence.
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What's your AGENDA?
AGENDA is a record of search and research, providing more questions than answers.
AGENDA is unapologetically naive.
AGENDA is an unorthodox architecture novel.
AGENDA demystifies the practice of architecture, revealing process, research, fun, and failure.
AGENDA looks to both the past and the future.
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And while women are frightened, depressed, and disillusioned when faced with...
– Ivana Macek of women in the Former Yugoslavia
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the Bow, the Arrow, the Target. by Paulo Coelho
The bow is life: all energy emanates from it.
The arrow will be shot one day.
The target is far away.
But your life will always be with you, and you have to know how to take proper care of it.
It needs periods of inactivity – a bow that is always ready, in a state of tension, loses its potency. So, accept rest to recover your firmness: in this way, when you stretch the string, your...
Isn’t it trivializing and demeaning to make someone look wise, noble...
– Richard Avedon of Presidents, dignitaries, and diplomats from around the world during photo opts
For to witness majesty, to find yourself literally touched by it- isn’t...
– David Sedaris of his encounter with a loggerhead
It may seem strange to you here, especially the many of you who lost members of...
– President Clinton of the crisis in Darfur