#ect

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#me #new #new yorker #project #touched

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#beautiful place #because #become #below #competition

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#built #cent #competition #get #idea

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#greatest #mankind #sickness

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#back #called #human #human nature #knowledge

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#connects #free #friction #gliding #habit

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ape #cannot #draw #likewise #man

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#applause #demand #hinders #means #our

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#comic #comic strips #gas #i #interesting

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#american people #anger #best #country #experience