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‘We shape our buildings,’ Winston Churchill was later to say, ‘and afterwards our buildings shape us.’
“paradox is more than that: it should entail a conflict between two deeply held convictions.”
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
“An “idealist” was a man who lived for his idea—hence he could not be a businessman—and who was prepared to sacrifice for his idea everything and, especially, everybody.”
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
“A little simplicification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.” —Eleanor Roosevelt”
― Simple Matters: Living with Less and Ending Up with More
― Simple Matters: Living with Less and Ending Up with More
“In 164 BC they defeat the Seleucid army, recapture Jerusalem, and cleanse the temple. To celebrate the cleansing of the temple, the Jewish festival of Hanukkah is instituted, a holiday that Jews continue to celebrate today.”
― The Temple and the Tabernacle: A Study of God's Dwelling Places from Genesis to Revelation
― The Temple and the Tabernacle: A Study of God's Dwelling Places from Genesis to Revelation
“Eichmann’s own attitude was different. First of all, the indictment for murder was wrong: “With the killing of Jews I had nothing to do. I never killed a Jew, or a non-Jew, for that matter —I never killed any human being. I never gave an order to kill either a Jew or a non-Jew; I just did not do it,” or, as he was later to qualify this statement, “It so happened ... that I had not once to do it”—for he left no doubt that he would have killed his own father if he had received an order to that effect.”
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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