"Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek."
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"A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement"
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"The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement."
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"I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011."
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"A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth."
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"You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a regular engagement."
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"Otherwise, their only engagement I'm going to have with [Donald Trump] is fighting back against their attempts to undo Dodd-Frank, their attempts to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and all of those things."
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"If [Donald Trump] comes forward and if he does that, then, of course, there will be some engagement."
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"Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?"
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