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  • Bjarke Ingels Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Boris Pasternak Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Jeanette Winterson Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Laura Riding Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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  • Ben Horowitz As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bobby Davro As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Annie Dillard As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Britney Spears As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, 'I'm a mom - I'm supposed to know these things,' but you don't.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Andre Norton As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Arlen Specter As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Barry Unsworth As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • E. M. Forster As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Cao Yu As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
    Cao Yu
     
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  • Bob Ainsworth As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Barry Commoner As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Brenda Brathwaite At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers.
    Brenda Brathwaite
    American game designer
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