Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
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Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."
Napoleon Hill
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward."
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."
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"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
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"Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order."
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"Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier."
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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"To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it."
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."
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"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."
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"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."
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"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
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"No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
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"Develop a built-in bullshit detector."
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"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."
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"Life is half spent before we know what it is."
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."
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"It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that."
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"Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope."
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"I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing."
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"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
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