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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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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel…
— Christopher Alexander
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If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain.…
— Henry Van Dyke
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There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read…
— Thomas Browne
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I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills.…
— Unknown Author
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If we do not control our minds with our Buddha nature, do not practice seriously, are not honest to ourselves and do…
— Ching Hai
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?
— Amy Harmon
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The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used…
— Ashley Judd
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Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is…
— Jim Sinclair
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When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you…
— Muhammad
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