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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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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Alive Ancient Anyone Beautiful Beautiful Places Buildings Except Faces Feel Following Form Great Hills Lead Looks Make Our Places Possible See Themselves Towns Trees Way Where Which Who Will You Yourself

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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Buildings Character Easily Form Individual Nature Patterns Sentences Sequence Themselves Thoughts Whole Will Within Your

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The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Came Comic First Form House Memoir Mess Novel Out Parody White White House Wrote

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We all know that as we form thoughts, they form deep channels in our minds and in our brains. Chronic pain is an example. If you burn yourself, you pull your hand away. But if you're still in pain in six months' or six years' time, it's because these circuits are producing pain that's no longer helping you.

~Christopher Decharms

Topics: Away Because Brains Burn Channels Chronic Deep Example Form Hand Helping Know Longer Minds Months Our Pain Producing Pull Six Still Thoughts Time Years You Your Yourself

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By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Arm Books By The Time Every Every Time Father Form Go Grammar Grammar School Him Local Me Money Passed Reached School Sixth Stack Time University Warning Would

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I don't know anyone who's ever taken a bus. It's a mysterious form of transportation.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Anyone Bus Ever Form Know Mysterious Taken Transportation

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It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended... itself!

~Christopher Knight

Topics: Been Beyond Core Evolved Form Honor Intent Itself Lives Many Original Part Show Something

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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Age Character Develops Every Exaggerated Express Form Forms Own Pathology Peculiar Structure Underlying Which

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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Advertising Another Form Liberal News Propaganda Represents

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