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• Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

  Charles Jencks

  Block, July, Grace

  Charles Jencks (2012). “The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons

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• As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

  Helena

  Men, Three, Inward

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• If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Musical, Pieces, Serious

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• THANKS: Be Grateful for what God has given you GIVING: Be Faithful with what God has given you.

  Kerry Shook

  Grateful, Giving, Faithful

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• For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

  Laura Cereta

  Mind, Study, Not Afraid

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• The life I'm living
  is the life I'm given.

  David Bromberg

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• Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels. In combination, these energy options represent the most robust alternative to the current energy system, capable of providing the diverse array of energy services that a modern economy requires. Given the urgency of the climate problem, that is indeed convenient.

  Christopher Flavin

  Technology, Alternatives, Fuel

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• Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Population, Female, Vote

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• God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

  Jim George

  Two, Listening, Ears

  Jim George (2016). “A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage”, p.33, Harvest House Publishers

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• Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah. It is only by our connection to our Creator that we rise or fall in life, in our relationship with our world—and with all of humanity.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fall, Taken, Thinking

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• I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where #Christian love is a reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Loyalty, Home

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Hinduism, being one of the world's oldest, largest and most diverse traditions, also provides inspiration toward deities in our game. In fact, given Hinduism's concept of a single truth with multiple physical manifestations one could validly interpret ALL the gods within SMITE to be Hindu. And all gods outside of SMITE as well. Ponder that for a minute. Anyway, going forward SMITE will include even more deities, not fewer.

  Todd Harris

  Inspiration, Games, World

  "Religious group calls for removal of Hindu deities from Hi-Rez's SMITE" by Matt Daniel, www.engadget.com. June 27, 2012.

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• My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.

  Steven Callahan

  Pain, Loneliness, Important

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us.

  Will Schwalbe

  Mom, Father, Priorities

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.13, Vintage

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• I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

  Sarah Polley

  Believe, World, Film

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• Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Circumstances, Turns, My Own

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.341, Faber & Faber

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• The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

  James S. Coleman

  Class, Achievement, Students

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• If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Earth, Way, Spirituality

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• The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

  Robert Hofstadter

  Awards, Honor, Fields

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• To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation.

  Dalai Lama

  Suffering, Situation, Depends

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.112, Penguin

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• The Creator has given me the strength to look forward in life, to embrace the beautiful and the positive. Now I truly walk in beauty.

  Radmilla Cody

  Beautiful, Forward In Life, Looks

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• Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Great Men, Expecting

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• I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Character, Thinking, Impact

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• People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973.

  Martin Cooper

  People, Car, Office

  "38 years ago he made the first cell phone call" by Bob Greene, edition.cnn.com. April 3, 2011.

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• African tech companies must be held to the same standards as companies anywhere else in the world. But we must also be given the same respect. As long as we are treated as valuable partners, we can succeed.

  Rebecca Enonchong

  Long, World, Succeed

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