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“If you can design one thing, you can design everything.”
Source : Massimo Vignelli, Lella Vignelli, Images Publishing (2004). “Design is One”, p.4, Images Publishing
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“It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.”
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“You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.”
Source : "I can be a real arrogant brat" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2003. 
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“I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.”
Source : 1688 Letter to Mr Poley, 12 Jan.
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“I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.”
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“I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.”
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“If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.”
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“In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.”
Source : "Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.
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“The profit on a good action is to have done it.”
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“Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.”
Source : Interview with Patrick B. Anderson, lacrossetribune.com. March 30, 2012.
