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We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#home #identity #architecture

He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#decided #department #doing #had #knew

A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured. ↗

— Louis I. Kahn

#architecture

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#atomic bomb #beyond #bomb #country #different

He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?" "He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness startled Tessa. "What a beautiful thing to hear. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#relished #unexpected-changes #beauty

He's got a can up there,' Richard said. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#reflection #wonderful #nature

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#being #learn #make #mistake #most

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry. ↗