Block Quotes - Page 9

• On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur. If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.

  Christopher Alexander

  Space, Different, Elements

  "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.

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• One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.

  Christopher Alexander

  Thinking, Giving, Fabric

  "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.

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• El arte de envejecer es el arte de ser considerado por las generaciones venideras como un apoyo y no como un obstáculo...

  André Maurois

  Art, Support, Age

  "El arte de vivir". Libro de André Maurois, 1939.

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• Nunca he tenido un bloqueo. Hablo dentro de los límites de mis capacidades. Pero a mi pequeña manera, he tenido un bochorno de riquezas. Tengo cinco ideas y me muero por hacerlas todas. Pasan semanas o meses en los que agonizo y me obsesiono con cuál hacer a continuación. A veces me gustaría que alguien eligiera por mí. Si alguien me dijera: "Haz ahora la idea número tres", estaría bien. Pero nunca he tenido la sensación de quedarme sin ideas.

  Woody Allen

  Running, Talking, Ideas

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• This is precisely the purpose of censorship - not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.

  Hedrick Smith

  Views, Knowing, People

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• El hombre ha gobernado tradicionalmente la esfera social; el feminismo le dice que se aparte y comparta su poder. Pero la mujer domina la esfera sexual y emocional, y ahí no tiene rival. La ideología victimista, una caricatura de la historia social, impide que las mujeres reconozcan su dominio en el ámbito más profundo e importante. ?

  Camille Paglia

  Moving, Men, Emotional

  Camille Paglia (2011). "Vamps & Tramps: New Essays", p.31, Vintage

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• The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -- putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply -- if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. I think you may no longer be content with plays that you can't remember halfway down the block.

  Edward Albee

  Fun, Thinking, Play

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• Por lo tanto, hay que hacer todo lo posible para perpetuar la prosperidad. Y, puesto que eso beneficia tanto a los ricos como a los pobres, todo lo que se acumule de los ingresos debe reunirse en un fondo único y distribuirse en subvenciones en bloque a los necesitados, si es posible en sumas globales lo suficientemente grandes para la adquisición de un pequeño pedazo de tierra, pero si no, lo suficiente para iniciar un negocio, o trabajar en la agricultura. Y si eso no puede hacerse para todos, la distribución podría hacerse por tribus o alguna otra división cada una a su vez.

  Aristotle

  Agriculture, Land, Effort

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• In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

  Federico Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Attention

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• The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to step outside the conceptual framework they have and transmitting blocks of awareness to an individual psychically.

  Federico Lenz

  Teaching, Mind, Majority

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• The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

  Federico Lenz

  Profesor, Budista, Budismo

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• Si alguien está en el mismo estado de ánimo y no busca bloquear tu éxito, tienes un amigo. Tales amigos son raros, y si encuentras un amigo así, valóralo.

  Federico Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Mind

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• Una estatua yace oculta en un bloque de mármol, y el arte de la estatuaria sólo despeja la materia superflua y elimina la basura. La figura está en la piedra; el escultor sólo la encuentra. Lo que la escultura es para un bloque de mármol, la educación lo es para un alma humana. El filósofo, el santo o el héroe, el sabio, el bueno o el gran hombre, yacen a menudo escondidos y ocultos en un plebeyo, que una educación adecuada podría haber desenterrado y sacado a la luz.

  Joseph Addison

  Education, Wise, Art

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.96

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• The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

  Oprah Winfrey

  School, Secret, World

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• The abuse of cabmen in a block.

  Juvenal

  Abuso

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• Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Men, Done

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.62

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• Aquí estoy yo, una de las mujeres más pintorescas de mi época -si no de mi cuadra- a la que se hace sonar positivamente leguleya en entrevistas impresas.

  Bette Midler

  Here I Am, Sound, Publicity

  Bette Midler (2014). "A View from A Broad", p.28, Simon and Schuster.

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• I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

  Marie Dressler

  Dog, Horse, Together

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• In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Lying, Average, Years

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• I've learned what Trump has taught - we need to put our best foot forward and don't let anybody block us from anything that we wish to do or want to do.

  LaToya Jackson

  Feet, Wish, Needs

  Fuente: www.digitalspy.com

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• Por desgracia, nuestras normas [americanas] sobre el lugar de trabajo están ancladas en los años setenta, cuando, de un bloque de 10 casas, en más de la mitad de ellas el marido iba a trabajar y la mujer se quedaba en casa. Ahora, en ese mismo bloque, casi ocho de las esposas trabajan. Esa es una de las razones por las que quiero igual salario por igual trabajo, y por las que las guarderías asequibles, la educación infantil y el preescolar universal son tan importantes para mí.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Husband, Home, Eight

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

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• I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

  Sarah Kay

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Fuente: saseye.com

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• No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Morning, Ice, Savages

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• In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.

  Joni Mitchell

  Song, New York, Adventure

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• We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

  John F. Kerry

  Wall, Promise, President

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