"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will."
La Rochefoucauld
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
Louis Kahn
"If you want to know how old a woman is . . . Ask her sister-in-law."
Edgar Howe
"You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot."
Matt Forbeck
"I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful."
Robert Lopez
"Trust acquired through challenged skepticism is infinitely more solid and lasting than passive acceptance."
Brownell Landrum
"Remember the unremembered."
love the unloved
"Responsibility is definitely not something you feel."
it is something you wear.
"One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies."
Phil Ochs
"In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age."
Adalbert Stifter
"In many homes, technology meant to illuminate the mind ends up only illuminating the living room."
Joe Dilley
"Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself."
Franz Bardon
"I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused."
Jodi Picoult
"Nobody is wired wrong because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are."
Hannah Hart
"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."
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