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"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."

"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."

"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."

"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."

"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."
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"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."


"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."


"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."


"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."


"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."


"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
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