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People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

~Christo

Topics: Airport Art Because Beings Bigger Build Create Giant Highways Human Human Beings Miles Monumental Much Our People Than Things Think Thousands Work

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Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art.

~Christo

Topics: Afraid Allow Art Beings Convince Create Days Enjoy Even Fact Go Human Human Beings Just New Our Over Them Therefore Us Will Work

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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

~Christo

Topics: Able Beautiful Beauty Because Believe Create Done Drawings Hope Joy Majority Never Only Our Sad Specialty Tell Them Through Visualize Will Work

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Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.

~Christoph Waltz

Topics: Because Cause Create Dangerous Dealt Elusive Exist Form History Internet Know Look More Same Than Them Without

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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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In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Also Cooperate Create Different Different Places Environment Every Everyone Global Identified Left Organic Over Part Parts Place Places Unique Which Who Whole

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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

Topics: Almost Always Balance Between Coherence Create Development Environment Growth Importance Individual Manage Never Nowadays Other Parts Process Seems Subtle Whole

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Every election, a presidential candidate inevitably proposes a new cabinet agency. The idea is that this is the only way to solve a particular problem. Just create more government.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Agency Cabinet Candidate Create Election Every Government Idea Inevitably Just More New Only Particular Presidential Problem Proposes Solve Way

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For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

~Christopher Dawson

Topics: Also Appeals Blood Class Common Create Culture Human Human Nature Humanism Humanity Language Liberate Limitations Man Men Narrow Nature Qualities Realize Seeks Soil Universal Which

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And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

~Christopher Dawson

Topics: Appeal Belong Binding Christian Citizens Create Faith Forced Longer Moral New Official Old Principles State Today Tradition Which Will

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