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“First, people tolerate evil because they see some benefit to themselves,' he said. 'Then, they feed it in hope that it will turn into something else. Then, they appease it in hope that it will not turn against them. Then, they respect it because they fear it. Finally, someone has to step up and stamp it out! (...)”
― Walter Dean Myers, The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944

“Did he know already that he would get a sunflower when he was buried? The murderer would own something even when he was dead…And I?”
― Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

“I dig out some change from my pocket. She takes a careful look at the nickels and dimes. God blesses me anyway.”
― Jenny Offill, Weather

“Tasarım sona ermez, çünkü ihtiyaçlar ve beğeniler değişmeye devam eder.”
― Ardan Ergüven, İyi Tasarım Nedir?

“Tasarlarken özgürce hareket edebilmemizi sağlayan şey problemlerin ne olduğuna karar verebilme gücümüzdür.”
― Ardan Ergüven, İyi Tasarım Nedir?

“Tasarımı nehir yatağında yuvarlanan bir çakıltaşına benzetebiliriz. Çakıltaşı akarsuyun etkisiyle hareket eder, yuvarlandıkça yüzeyi pürüzsüzleşir ve değişmeye devam eder. Mükemmel şeklini alana dek biçim değiştirir. Gelişen teknolojiler ve değişen zevkler de pek çok ürünün tıpkı bir çakıltaşı gibi zamanla evrim geçirmesine neden olmuştur.”
― Ardan Ergüven, İyi Tasarım Nedir?

“She was staring and there was something so ghastly in her expression that Mrs. Bantry half took a step forward. Was the woman going to faint? What on earth could she be seeing that gave her that basilisk look? But before she could reach Marina’s side the latter had recovered herself.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Roo didn’t answer. But the question, he soon saw, was not a rhetorical one.”
― Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs

“The battles that followed this private view were fierce, painful, and prolonged.”
― Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs

“She didn’t say anything; her eyes were enormous with wonder but not with fear.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“Co-incidence” means that two events unexpectedly happen at the same time, they meet: Tomas appears in the hotel restaurant at the same time the radio is playing Beethoven. We do not even notice the great majority of such coincidences. If the seat Tomas occupied had been occupied instead by the local butcher, Tereza never would have noticed that the radio was playing Beethoven (though the meeting of Beethoven and the butcher would also have been an interesting coincidence). But her nascent love inflamed her sense of beauty, and she would never forget that music. Whenever she heard it, she would be touched. Everything going on around her at that moment would be haloed by the music and take on its beauty.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being