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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design. ↗

— Michael Arad

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I had a dual role: designer and advocate. ↗

— Michael Arad

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When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly. ↗

— Michael Arad

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You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you. ↗

— Michael Arad

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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ↗

— Aristotle

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. ↗

— Aristotle

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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

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