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Architecture3 quotes
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. — Frank Lloyd Wright · 1958The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright · 1953No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. — Frank Lloyd Wright · 1932Cold War3 quotes
I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. — Joseph McCarthy · 1950McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. — George F. Kennan · 1947War3 quotes
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. — George F. Kennan · 1977I think all men recognize that in time of war the citizen must surrender some rights for the common good which he is entitled to enjoy in time of peace. But, sir, the right to control their own government according to constitutional forms is not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war. — Robert M. La Follette · 1917A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. — Golda Meir · 1970American frontier2 quotes
What the Mediterranean Sea was to the Greeks, breaking the bond of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities, that, and more, the ever retreating frontier has been to the United States directly, and to the nations of Europe more remotely. And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history. — Frederick Jackson Turner · 1893The frontier is the outer edge of the wave-the meeting-point between savagery and civilization... And line of most rapid and effective Americanization. The wilderness masters the colonist. — Frederick Jackson Turner · 1893American politics2 quotes
I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. — Joseph McCarthy · 1950McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952Communism2 quotes
I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. — Joseph McCarthy · 1950McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952Red Scare2 quotes
I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. — Joseph McCarthy · 1950McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952Art1 quote
Filling a space in a beautiful way. That is what art means to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe · 1977Artificial intelligence1 quote
We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence. — Vernor Vinge · 1993Cities1 quote
The modern city is a place for banking and prostitution and very little else. — Frank Lloyd Wright · 1973Consumerism1 quote
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence. — Brooks Stevens · 1960Disaster1 quote
Houston, we've had a problem. — James Lovell · 1970Going to war1 quote
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. — Golda Meir · 1970Information overload1 quote
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. — Herbert A. Simon · 1971Israel1 quote
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of others, and in cooperation, and friendship with others. — Golda Meir · 1946Music1 quote
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? — Michael Torke · 1990Nature of art1 quote
Filling a space in a beautiful way. That is what art means to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe · 1977Nerds1 quote
Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. — Charles J. Sykes · 1996Observation1 quote
Nobody sees a flower-really-it is so small-we haven't time-and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. — Georgia O'Keeffe · 1939Paying attention1 quote
Nobody sees a flower-really-it is so small-we haven't time-and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. — Georgia O'Keeffe · 1939Political parties1 quote
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely. It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless... If there is not sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another, possibly more effective pretext after war is on. — Robert M. La Follette · 1917Political theory1 quote
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely. It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless... If there is not sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another, possibly more effective pretext after war is on. — Robert M. La Follette · 1917Power of music1 quote
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? — Michael Torke · 1990Preemptive war1 quote
I believe that history will record that we have made a great mistake. — Wayne Lyman Morse · 1964Preparing for war1 quote
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. — George F. Kennan · 1977Self-determination1 quote
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of others, and in cooperation, and friendship with others. — Golda Meir · 1946Slowing down1 quote
Nobody sees a flower-really-it is so small-we haven't time-and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. — Georgia O'Keeffe · 1939Soviet Union1 quote
The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. — George F. Kennan · 1947Space program1 quote
Houston, we've had a problem. — James Lovell · 1970Technological progress1 quote
We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence. — Vernor Vinge · 1993