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I cannot imagine being happy anywhere else in the world but in Cape Town - South Africa in general, but Cape Town in particular.

~Christoffel Wiese

Topics: Africa Anywhere Anywhere Else Being Being Happy Cannot Cape Else General Happy Imagine Particular South South Africa Town World

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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Building Cannot Central Criterion First Know Life Man Must Name Named Objective Precise Quality Root Seek Spirit Timeless Town Way Which Wilderness Without

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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Between Cannot Context Describe Designed Form Harmony Kind Properly Searching Some Two We Cannot Which

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But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Adapt Arise Because Cannot Changes Community Create Easily Fail Inevitably Life Master Natural Order Organic Plans Practice Rigid Too Totalitarian Unpredictable

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A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Accord Alive Attained Brings Building Cannot Extent Governed Happen Nothing Only Order Ourselves Out Own Process Timeless Town Way Which Will

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This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Around Becomes Build Cannot Coherent Fundamental Isolation Larger Make Merely More Must Nature Place Repair Says Takes Thing View Web Which Whole Within World You

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The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

~Christopher Gadsden

Topics: Activity Advantage Age Am Cannot Conscious Degree Feel Increasing Life Present Prime Require Serve Times Vigor You I Am I Feel

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There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Across Cannot Classes Dozens Improv Nation Really Taught

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I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Cannot Country Either Every Go Granted Law Law And Order Least Little Make Much Once Order Still Sure Taken Taken For Granted Things Too Too Much Where Year

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There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: About Always Been Believe Cannot Cognitive Faith Made Noise People Percent Perhaps Puts Research Science Some Talk Us White Who

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