Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.


Bernard Tschumi

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I've partnered with all sorts of people over many, many years in all sorts of ways.
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All sorts and conditions of men.
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Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
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Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
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Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
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Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerrilla war against society
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They're going all over the state and winning all sorts of competitions.
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Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.
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We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
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We observed all sorts of improprieties.
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All sorts of issues of trust, values and priorities come up.
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Joy delights in Joy
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The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God!
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There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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At times society makes it seem like a crime to change one's mind.
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Women’s silence is the biggest crime for which they are enslaved by society.
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I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.
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I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.
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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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Distracted by all sorts of distractions, it wanders around aimlessly in the ten directions.
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In my experience of shame, the other sees all of me and all through me, even if the occasion of sham...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
I really missed them, ... [They're] all I have now. [My] house is gone, trucks gone -- brand new tru...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
It's a damn good idea. And it's a long overdue idea.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
It sounds like you would be good for housing, but we?re a community treatment team. We?re working wi...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
I thought as a millennium project it would be fun … to have all the peo...
BERNARD WEBER
I believe that after more than 2,000 years it's time to redefine the world wonders. Thanks to intern...
BERNARD WEBER
I have to admit, before I started the project, I had about three weeks of sleepless nights. The idea...
BERNARD WEBER
They should become symbols of unity in the modern world, just as the original seven wonders were sym...
BERNARD WEBER
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
BERNARD VOTO
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriage...
BERNARD VOTO
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse stead...
BERNARD VOTO
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom
BERNARD VOTO
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it
BERNARD VOTO
Tuesday can be a turning point. It's set to be a big day. It has to be a very big day. We've counted...
BERNARD THIBAULT
We won't let the freedom of firing at whim install itself in French legislation.
BERNARD THIBAULT
The government has to admit, in light of yesterday's protest, that this reform cannot be implemented...
BERNARD THIBAULT
Tuesday can be a turning point.
BERNARD THIBAULT
That would be a decision with serious consequences.
BERNARD THIBAULT
When all unions join together to bring a consistent message, there is a response and support from th...
BERNARD THIBAULT
We haven't yet convinced the prime minister to withdraw the C.P.E..
BERNARD THIBAULT
Each day lost to respond to workers' requests is increasing tension. This is turning into a real eme...
BERNARD THIBAULT
We are more than three million on the street. It is historic. It is unthinkable for the prime minist...
BERNARD THIBAULT
We will not allow it to be written in French law that workers can be laid off at a click of the fing...
BERNARD THIBAULT
The choice of Texas for the meeting is symbolic. Lost in the focus on the federal legislation are th...
BERNARD SIEGEL
He said if I would form an organization to advance scientific research from a legal perspective, he ...
BERNARD SIEGEL
I feel like I jumped out of an airplane at 40,000 feet without a parachute,
BERNARD SIEGEL
I realized there was a vacuum, an unmet need for an organization that could stitch together all of t...
BERNARD SIEGEL
You can almost reach out and touch Ed Turner's impact on CNN. His standards were so high. The things...
BERNARD SHAW
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
BERNARD SHAW
What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fi...
BERNARD SHAW