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“Under the snow's reflected light creeping into the houses, beneath the dim lamplight, various types of manual work is taken up. This is how time is forgotten; this is how work absorbs the hours and days. If time remains unused, winter becomes a curse.”
― Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things

“It’s deeply poignant that we should expend so much effort on trying to look strong before the world when, all the while, it’s really only ever the revelation of the somewhat embarrassing, sad, melancholy, and anxious bits of us that renders us endearing to others and transforms strangers into friends.”
― The School of Life, The School of Life: An Emotional Education

“Society cannot be proud when a product is available only to a select few...Equating the expensive with the beautiful cannot be a point of pride.”
― Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things

“Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.”
― David P. Billington