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"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride."
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."

"I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing."

"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

"They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over."

"Nothing I do can't be done by a 10-year-old with 15 years of practice."
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"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."

"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"To be taught to read-what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak-but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think-nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true."

"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."
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