Top 33 Friedensreich Quotes

#1. If I could only teach you one thing about the world, it would be to Appreciate and be as present as possible in every moment. Take everything in and try and learn from it. No matter how tangled things get, there is always a lesson to be learned in the untangling of those things.

Bethany Brookbank

#2. Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.

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#3. We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.

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#4. If your job wasn't performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I'm not sure I believe it's necessary

Tim Krieder

#5. Courting is the art of growing like mould on the one you want.

Steven Erikson

#6. The straight line is ungodly.

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#7. A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony

Anthony Lawlor

#8. If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

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#9. I consider myself the head coach whose job is to keep this winning team intact. I keep everybody focused and motivated.

Monte Lipman

#10. Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful ...

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#11. Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.

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#12. It is nice. But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.

Laura Ruby

#13. Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

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#14. Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.

LL Cool J

#15. Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

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#16. Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

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#17. She didn't have time for Alzheimer's today.

Lisa Genova

#18. An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.

Abraham Maslow

#19. MacMillian narrowed his eyes at the man in the fedora. Neither he nor his friend looked a day older than nineteen, at most. "You're a ... minister?"
The man's lips twitched. "Of sorts.

Laura Oliva

#20. Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

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#21. It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

Jennifer Connelly

#22. Moral' means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That is the ultimate meaning of morality.

Dada Bhagwan

#23. I tried to tune out the sensation and, embarassed at the silvering of my eyes-I have to admit, I had a sudden, new sympathy for men faced with hiding their arousal-I squeezed them shut.

Chloe Neill

#24. Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

Ramana Maharshi

#25. If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.

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#26. You are a guest of nature - behave.

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#27. I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Benjamin Franklin

#28. Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.

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#29. When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

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#30. The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.

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#31. There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

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#32. The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

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#33. The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

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