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Quotes by American Authors
"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
"A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000."
"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."
"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us."
"I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister."
"Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city."
"What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold."
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss."
"My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person."
"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it."
"It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different."
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
"He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."
"A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy."
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
"I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out."
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
"I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out."
"Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold."
"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."
"In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice."
"Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it."
"Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect."
"Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."
"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
"Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub."
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