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Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
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Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
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You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.
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Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.
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I don't think the thing is to be well known, but being worth knowing.
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Manuals have their uses... but they are not to be confused with living.
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Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
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It doesn't matter what you say you believe — it only matters what you do.
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The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.
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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
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Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
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Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.
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Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful
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Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.
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Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.
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Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.
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It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
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If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?
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Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
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Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, something you give away.
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A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.
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Be aware of wonder. And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned — the biggest word of all — LOOK.
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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.
Christopher Alexander
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June 4, 1937
(age 85)
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