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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."

"You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition."

"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."

"To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom."

"How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now."

"I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere."

"If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light."

"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground."
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