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“In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon
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“When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'”
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“The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.”
Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.58, Baker Books
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“In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them (did not) weaken the morale of the populace.”
Source : "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 363), 1970.
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“One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.”
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“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
Source : 'The Universal Prayer' (1738)
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“You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.”
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“If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.”
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“Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.”
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“A large heart can be filled with very little.”
Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
