"Hillary Brown understands that?for our grandchildren's sake?we must rebuild America and, in doing so, re-imagine our interconnected infrastructure systems to make them more efficient, environmentally safe, and resilient in this age of global urbanization. This fascinating and important book should be required reading for our elected officials and policy-makers."

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“Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.”
“We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up.”

Source : Angus Buchan (2011). “Faith Like Potatoes: The story of a farmer who risked everything for God”, p.87, Monarch Books
“What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.”
“If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.”

Source : "Shostakovich: A Life". Book by Laurel Elizabeth Fay, p. 92, 2000.
“I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.”
“I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.”
“But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179)”
“And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, and have done that, I think it would have been worthwhile.”

Source : "18 years ago today: U2's historic performance in war-torn Bosnia" by Emily Rome, uproxx.com. September 23, 2015.

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