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Quote for Today: Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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April 17, 2017 by katmcdaniel

The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the walls surrounding a medieval castle: obsolete walls evoke nostalgia. Make your …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: beauty, culture, evocative, humanity, interesting, Khang Kijarro Nguyen, nostalgia, obsolete, outgrown, usefulness, value, walls
Quote for Today: Philip Johnson
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May 10, 2014 by katmcdaniel

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into – after all, you haven’t any straight lines in your body. …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: architecture, Being Creative, communication, concrete, design, form, human body, imagination, marvelous, mold, perception, Philip Johnson, straight lines, walls
Quote for Today: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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May 8, 2014 by katmcdaniel

There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Russia, no China, no Taiwan. Rivers flow …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: boundaries, connectedness, discriminate, Earth, fragility, nations, persistent, resilience, rivers, sea, shores, tides, walls, water
Quote for Today: Isaac Marion
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May 7, 2014 by katmcdaniel

Was it just fear? the voices wonder. We were fearful in the best of times; how could we cope with …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: apocalypse, biggest, fear, fragility, happiness, humanity, Isaac Marion, maximalism, military solution, resilience, strongest, walls, Warm Bodies, weapons
Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
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May 6, 2014 by katmcdaniel

I wrote a great deal of a novel, Winter’s Tale, on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Being Creative, Brooklyn Heights, climber, Inspiration, Mark Helprin, novel, perspective, tenement, walls, Winter's Tale, writing
Quote for Today: Peter Zumthor
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May 4, 2014 by katmcdaniel

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: architectural, environment, garden, imagination, imagine, intimacy, inviting, magical, nature, Peter Zumthor, shelter, Stay, vision, walls
Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
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May 2, 2014 by katmcdaniel

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: blow, change, communication, consequence, fall, humanity, individuality, Jeanette Winterson, limit, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, protect, trumpet, walls

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