#desi

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. ↗

— Abigail Adams

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Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#design #environmental #great #great problems #problems

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Allen

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Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. ↗

— Carl Andre

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Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. ↗

— Norman Angell

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How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative? ↗

— Michael Arad

#design #feel #form #how #own

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#change #desire #every #his #hospital

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. ↗

— Charles Bent

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