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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision…
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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
— Winston Churchill
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We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
— Winston Churchill
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Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that…
— Brené Brown
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What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the…
— Richard M. Nixon
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We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
— Rob Bell
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We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.
— Winston Churchill
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First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
— Marshall McLuhan
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I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have…
— Kevin Hearne
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We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self.…
— Kenny Smith
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We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.
— Deval Patrick
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I am a believer, I am believer that we shape and create the life that we choose, and I believe that the…
— Kai Greene
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Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and…
— Roger Scruton
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