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"When a rule is enforced, the person who is supposed to have broken it may be seen as a special kind of person.”

Howard S. Becker (1928 – ) 

"Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.”

Mark Hopkins (1802 – 1887) 

"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.”

William McFee (1881 – 1966) 

"I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor.”

C. P. Snow (1905 – 1980) 

"Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down.”

Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918) 

"Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.”

Bernard Baruch (1870 – 1965) 

"Man never makes a plan but fortune makes another.”

Bernardo Dovizi Bibbiena (1470 – 1520) 

"Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”

A. J. P. Taylor (1906 – 1990) 

"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment."

Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659 - 1719)

"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made.”

Lawrence Durrell (1912 – 1990)  

"People who put principles before people are people who hate people.”

John Barnes (1957 – ) 

"There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign."

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894)

"I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)

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Designer: Sou Fujimoto Location: Chiba, Japan   Images Credits: Sou Fujimoto

"If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.”

Charles Babbage (1791 – 1871) 

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”

Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867)