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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the…
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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel…
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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context…
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To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and…
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the…
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When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
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The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes…
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been.…
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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily…
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In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a…
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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported…
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the…
— Christopher Alexander
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First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.
— Leon Brown
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First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is…
— Rajneesh
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You must learn to honor and cherish and love your Self. You must first see your Self as worthy before you can…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know…
— Kabir
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First know yourself, then know others.
— Gichin Funakoshi
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To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
— G I Gurdjieff
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To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and…
— Sivananda
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We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our…
— John Calvin
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I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I…
— Socrates
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We can't really understand just how wonderful Heaven will be unless we first know how wonderful each of us will be when…
— David Berg
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