Quotern

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Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don't want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad?

-- Oscar Niemeyer

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Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home - will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.

-- Marguerite Duras

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Never make people laugh. If you would succeed in life, you must be solemn, solemn as an ass. All great monuments are built over solemn asses.

-- Thomas Corwin

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The pending direction of society rests more than any time in recorded history on the fulcrum of a human finger.

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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

-- J. Paul Getty

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy

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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

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According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.

-- Willie Dixon

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