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“Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.”
Carlos Barrios“Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.”
Carlos Barrios“Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, do not come to these islands empty-handed, or craven in spirit, or afraid to starve. There is no food here. In these islands there is no certainty. Bring your own food, your own gods, your own flowers and fruits and concepts. For if you come without resources to these islands you will perish... On these harsh terms the islands waited.”
James A. Michener, Hawaii“Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.”
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro“The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.”
Carlos Barrios, Mayan elder and Ajq'ij of the Eagle Clan“Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the sudden realization that nothing else was necessary to guarantee that it would be done; she needed no proofs, no questions, no explanations; a complex problem could rest safely on three syllables pronounced by a man who knew what he was saying.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged“I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job." -Dagny Taggart”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged“Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged“Dagny," he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and what he wanted. He did not say, 'It seems to me,' and he did not take orders from those who say, 'In my opinion.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged“You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged“She wanted to tell him of the years she had spent looking for men such as he to work with; she wanted to tell him that his enemies were hers, that she was fighting the same battle...”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged