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The funniest people I know always seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And thatâ€™s probably why theyâ€™re the funniest. The deeper the pit,… — Jim Norton
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk nor… — Eero Saarinen
The two great aims of industrialism â€” replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy â€” seem… — Wendell Berry
The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that… — Wendell Berry
There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem… — Nnamdi Azikiwe
The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful… — Jenny Holzer
The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek… — Ed Koch
Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims. — David Emerald Womeldorff
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very… — Madeleine L'Engle
Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the… — Helen Fielding
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking. — Herman Melville
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air,… — Paul Hawken
No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to… — Daisaku Ikeda
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can… — Helen Keller
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle,… — John Donne
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment… — James A. Baldwin
But elimination will only happen if all countries - nuclear and non-nuclear states - genuinely work towards this result. Nuclear states must abolish their arsenals,… — C. G. Weeramantry
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. — Jonathan Lethem
There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of… — Henry Ward Beecher

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