My Clippings

Great Expectations (Dickens, Charles)
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the
blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
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Third class in Indian railways (Mahatma Gandhi)
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describe them without committing a breach of the laws of decent speech.

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Great Expectations (Dickens, Charles)
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It matters not what stranded ships repairing in dry docks I lost myself among, what
old hulls of ships in course of being knocked to pieces, what ooze and slime and
other dregs of tide, what yards of ship-builders and ship-breakers, what rusty
anchors blindly biting into the ground, though for years off duty, what mountainous
country of accumulated casks and timber, how many ropewalks that were not the Old
Green Copper. After several times falling short of my destination and as often
overshooting it, I came unexpectedly round a corner, upon Mill Pond Bank. It was a
fresh kind of place, all circumstances considered, where the wind from the river
had room to turn itself round; and there were two or three trees in it, and there
was the stump of a ruined windmill, and there was the Old Green Copper Ropewalk,—
whose long and narrow vista I could trace in the moonlight, along a series of
wooden frames set in the ground, that looked like superannuated haymaking-rakes
which had grown old and lost most of their teeth.
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The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, F. Scott)
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that
you may come across four or five times in life.
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The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, F. Scott)
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes
before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster,
stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against
the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Ghost Stories of Shimla Hills (Chaudhry, Minakshi)
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Little Women (Alcott, Louisa May)
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mud pies, as Hannah called her little clay models of birds, fruit, and faces.
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels (Global Classics) (Doyle,
Arthur Conan)
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working through generations, and leading to the most outré

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Catcher_In_The_Rye_-_J_D_Salinger (cmsbpl@gmail.com)
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I'm a pacifist,
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Salems Lot (Stephen King)
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'Of such inconsequential beginnings dynasties are begun,'

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The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
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"Architects are servants, not leaders. They are not to assert their little egos,
but to express the soul of their country and the rhythm of their time.
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"Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to

a joy that justifies the existence of the earth."
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"Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to

a joy that justifies the existence of the earth."
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incongruously
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own virtue. She spoke evenly, without inflection.

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it seemed that the house was not a barrier against the sunlight, but a bowl to
gather it, to concentrate it into brighter radiance than that of the air outside.
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'Ellsworth' is the monument to my parents' peculiar taste in nomenclature."

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formation as delicate as the work of a jeweler;

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an incredible variety of shapes, each separate unit unrepeated, but leading

inevitably to the next one and to the whole; so that the future inhabitants were to
have, not a square cage out of a square pile of cages, but each a single house held
to the other houses like a single crystal to the side of a rock.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Unknown)
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"I feel infinite."

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A Separate Peace.
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I guess what I'm saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it's not mine to
be familiar about. I just know that another kid has felt this. This one time when
it's peaceful outside, and you're seeing things move, and you don't want to, and
everyone is asleep. And all the books you've read have been read by other people.
And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl
that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. And you know that if you looked at
these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing
"unity." It's like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding
hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and
they make you so mad. And all you want is to always feel happy for them because you
know that if you do, then it means that you're happy, too.
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I guess what I'm saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it's not mine to
be familiar about. I just know that another kid has felt this. This one time when
it's peaceful outside, and you're seeing things move, and you don't want to, and
everyone is asleep. And all the books you've read have been read by other people.
And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl
that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. And you know that if you looked at
these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing
"unity." It's like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding
hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and
they make you so mad. And all you want is to always feel happy for them because you
know that if you do, then it means that you're happy, too.
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Naked Lunch.
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present. He wore them with the careless impertinence

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clarity: 'nothing' is superior to 'something.'

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clarity: 'nothing' is superior to 'something.' Thus it is clear that the architect

is more than a bricklayer--since the fact of bricks is a secondary illusion anyway.
The architect is a metaphysical priest dealing in basic essentials, who has the
courage to face the primal conception of reality as nonreality--since there is
nothing and he creates nothingness. If this sounds like a contradiction, it is not
a proof of bad logic, but of a higher logic, the dialectics of all life and art.
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clarity: 'nothing' is superior to 'something.' Thus it is clear that the architect

is more than a bricklayer--since the fact of bricks is a secondary illusion anyway.
The architect is a metaphysical priest dealing in basic essentials, who has the
courage to face the primal conception of reality as nonreality--since there is
nothing and he creates nothingness. If this sounds like a contradiction, it is not
a proof of bad logic, but of a higher logic, the dialectics of all life and art.
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bourgeois
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tchotchke
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here? With no mask? This place has a ton of asbestos.”

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Once, she took the Staten Island ferry at two o'clock in the morning; she rode to
the island, standing alone at the rail of an empty deck. She watched the city
moving away from her. In the vast emptiness of sky and ocean, the city was only a
small, jagged solid. It seemed condensed, pressed tight together, not a place of
streets and separate buildings, but a single sculptured form. A
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form of irregular steps that rose and dropped without ordered continuity, long
ascensions and sudden drops, like the graph of a stubborn struggle. But it went on
mounting--toward a few points, toward the triumphant masts of skyscrapers raised
out of the struggle.
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implication that 'a crowd' is a term of opprobrium.

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he lay in bed with a woman. "We are fornicating

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He was shrewd, competent and unscrupulous

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sternly, "for comparing yourself to a man as contemptible

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A Game of Thrones (Unknown)
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voice. “Father took the king down to the crypts

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“Follow me, and try to look a shade more lecherous

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told him, grinning. The world was full of cravens

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Märchen für Kinder (German Edition) (Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian))
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16. Juni 2017 12:04:53
hübsche Häuser und am Fenster eines derselben

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jedem Fenster war in den Balken ein fratzenhaftes

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wären. „Das ist eine schöne Blume!“

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remembering how he’d found him, that day in

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A Clash of Kings (George R.R. Martin)
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east.” The distant white wal s promised rest and safety, a chance to
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The Critique of Pure Reason (Kant, Immanuel)
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Knowledge of this kind is called a priori, in contradistinction to empirical

knowledge, which has its sources a posteriori, that is, in experience.
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The Critique of Pure Reason (Kant, Immanuel)
Knowledge of this kind is called a priori, in contradistinction to empirical

knowledge, which has its sources a posteriori, that is, in experience.
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To Kill A Mockingbird (Unknown)
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misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention

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20:41:56
wondering what idiocy I had committed. Entailments

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Jean Louise,” she said, “Where are your britches

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Jean Louise,” she said, “Where are your britches

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Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath (Unknown)
And, as though this were his natural position of

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The Republic (AmazonClassics Edition) (Plato,)
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2017 21:27:29
For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions
relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one
mad master only, but of many.
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2017 21:27:38
mad master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also
the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is
not old age, but men’s characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy
nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite
disposition youth and age are equally a burden. I listened in admiration, and
wanting
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2017 21:27:41
disposition youth and age are
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2017 21:27:44
disposition
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2017 21:27:49
disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
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since no records will remain of their phone

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100 Greatest Poems (Unknown)
Thus let me live, unheard, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the
world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Microsoft Word - HELLER__JOSEPH___CATCH_22_V.TXt (da buddha)
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The colonel was gorgeous. He had a cavernous

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Phantasmagoria
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phantasmagorical,
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The God Father (Mario Puzo)
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decode the notations on the slips. It was very important that he do so. The
envelopes were the betting slips that his raiding parties had
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rst truly global empires and knitted together the rst global trade network.
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38. Zheng He’s flagship next to that of Columbus.

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India After Gandhi By Ramchandra Guha (Mrinmoy Ghosh)
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‘Scotland is more like Spain than Bengal is like the Punjab.’

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The difficulty is that in the Indian academy the past is defined as a single,
immovable date: 15 August 1947. Thus, when the clock struck midnight and India
became independent, history ended, and political science and sociology began.
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majority. Four compact states would replace the melange

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the free market, a scholar of art history, a noted bon

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free market, a scholar of art history, a noted bon vivant
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redeem the unfulfilled promises of the freedom

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aspersions on his probity or character. That she

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a possible comeback. So, while Chavan prevaricated,

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The law-makers of India are, more often than not, its most regular lawbreakers. The
decline of Parliament, and of reasoned
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India is no longer a constitutional democracy but a populist

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India is no longer a constitutional democracy but a populist one.

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Turtles All the Way Down (John Green)
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I would’ve told her that Davis and I never talked much, or even looked at each
other, but it didn’t matter, because we were looking at the same sky together,
which is maybe more intimate than eye contact anyway. Anybody can look at you. It’s
quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
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“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I
am, the more I will respect myself.”
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You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.”

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The Greeks didn’t even have a word for blue. The color didn’t exist to them.
Couldn’t see it without a word for it.
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“Sleep tight, ya morons.” —J. D. SALINGER

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Me: I like being outside at night. It gives me this weird feeling, like I’m
homesick but not for home. It’s kind of a good feeling, though.
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I felt like I could remember—him pushing me on the swing, his hand as big as my
back, the certainty that swinging away from him also meant swinging back to him.
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My favorite pictures of my dad are the few where he’s out of focus—because that’s
how people are, really,
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“But your thoughts are you. I think therefore I am, right?” “No, not really.
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A fuller formation of Descartes’s philosophy would be Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo

sum. ‘I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.’
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hasn’t helped him so far. I mean, who brings pot to school when they’re thirteen?
It’s like he wants to get in trouble.” “I’m sorry,” I said.
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The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished
that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and
you turn out to be terrible company.
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You don’t know a father’s weight Until it’s lifted.

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Few people contemplating Indira Gandhi’s funeral in 1984 would have predicted that
ten years later India would remain a unity but the Soviet Union would be a memory.
Robin Jeffret,
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India is regarded warily in the West because she is against the concept of
Imperialism and because she ‘invented’ the ‘Third World’. India is looked on with
suspicion in the ‘Third World’ because of her (subversive) sentiments for
democracy, human rights, etc.; the
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A List of Questions and Answers by Deshimaru Roshi (Jason Espada)
are not me, it's true, but it is also true that my mind and your mind have the same
substance. I am like the sky and the earth. When you let go of everything, you
become others. That is abandoning the ego. Don't get it wrong. That is the koan of
Master Dogen's mushrooms. Karma Question
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decide by myself. I must do what I do myself. Others are not me, it's true, but it
is also true that my mind and your mind have the same substance. I am like the sky
and the earth. When you let go of everything, you become others. That is abandoning
the ego. Don't get it wrong. That is the koan of Master Dogen's mushrooms. Karma
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What creates profound, true love - love without object and without desire for
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profit,
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profit, universal and eternal - is understanding the nature of the ego. Then
suffering is pointless.
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The only knowledge most people have of Zen is through books or the martial arts or
ikebana (flower arranging) or chado (the tea ceremony). These things are all part
of Zen, just as every phenomenon is part of Zen, even toilet paper is Zen. But if
you don't have the experience of zazen you will understand nothing of Zen, because
zazen contains the spirit of Zen. Without that the rest have nothing to do with
Zen. The essence of Buddhism is in the practice of zazen.
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12:42:48
The only knowledge most people have of Zen is through books or the martial arts or
ikebana (flower arranging) or chado (the tea ceremony). These things are all part
of Zen, just as every phenomenon is part of Zen, even toilet paper is Zen. But if
you don't have the experience of zazen you will understand nothing of Zen, because
zazen contains the spirit of Zen. Without that the rest have nothing to do with
Zen. The essence of Buddhism is in the practice of zazen.
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1984 (Unknown)
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enjoyment which was considered proper during the Physical

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Unknown (HP)
Man is not placed on the earth merely to be happy; nor is he placed here merely to
be honest, he is here to accomplish great things through society, to arrive at
nobleness, and to outgrow the vulgarity in which the existence of almost all
individuals drags on. Renan6
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Unknown (HP)
Man is not placed on the earth merely to be happy; nor is he placed here merely to
be honest, he is here to accomplish great things through society, to arrive at
nobleness, and to outgrow the vulgarity in which the existence of almost all
individuals drags on. Renan6
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Unknown (HP)
You certainly won’t forget her and her death, but keep it to yourself. This is one
of those things that, little by little, makes us ‘sorrowful, yet alway
rejoicing’;10 and that we must become.
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Unknown (HP)
My dear Theo, Feeling, even a fine feeling, for the beauties of nature isn’t the
same as religious feeling, although I believe that the two are closely connected.
The same is true of a feeling for art. Don’t give in to that too much either.1 Hold
fast especially to your love for the firm and for your work and to respect for Mr
Tersteeg. Later on you’ll see, better than now, that he deserves it. You don’t have
to take it to extremes, though.
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Van Gogh, Vincent)
‘to sacrifice all personal desires, to realize great things, to obtain nobleness of
mind, to surpass the vulgarity in which the existence of nearly all individuals is
spent.’
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‘And in a picture I wish to say something that would console as music does.’
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very careful with him for he seems to be in a fit of contrariness.’

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‘to suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.’
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admire as much as you can, most people do not admire enough.

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Try to walk as much as you can and keep your love for nature, for that is the true
way to learn to understand art more and more.
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Man is not on this earth only to be happy, he is not only there to be simply
honest, he is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to
surpass the vulgarity in which the existence of almost all individuals drags on.’
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And the sunset cast a ray of glittering light on the water. It was indeed a grand
and majestic sight, but still the simpler, more quiet things touch one so much more
deeply.
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Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
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As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves,
somehow reminding me of rain falling softly on a broad stretch of sea. I'm the
lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's the sea.
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execution device wasn't some metaphor or allegory—it's

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blood all over you? What the hell were you doing? But you don't remember a thing,
do you. No
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be happy to lick you somewhere, if you'd like." "No, there's no need to. Nakata's
grateful
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In dreams begin responsibilities.

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10:54:18
"It doesn't matter whose dream it started out as, you have the same dream. So
you're responsible for whatever happens in the dream. That dream crept inside you,
right down the dark corridor of your soul."
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11:08:11
You're afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the
responsibility that begins in dreams.
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I try imagining myself in forty years, but it's like trying to picture what lies
beyond the universe.
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a fifteen-year-old kid. Why is it that these days it's

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"Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So
anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping
back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.
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Janwillem van de Wetering, Janwillem van de Wetering-The Empty Mirror Experiences
in a Japanese Zen Monastery-Ballantine Books (1987) (Unknown)
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Some men are professional story collectors. I met one of them, a writer, greedily
gathering more and more stories, anecdotes, juicy bits. That way all you'll have is
a book full of jokes.
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Indifference is an unpleasant word, so perhaps one should say "detachment."

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only real heaven, the sphere of God himself. But Buddhism

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10:43:45
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But Buddhism doesn't attach itself to any theory, not even to the doctrine of the
Godlike self. Everything, you will find, is illusion, temporary, beyond our reach,
and that includes the divine self. Nothing exists, nothing has ever existed, and
nothing will ever exist. But when one starts thinking logically, and every time you
try to think you are using logic, we think of 'this' or 'that', and when we think
of 'nothing' we immediately oppose it, contrast it with 'something.' Then we
imagine an emptiness, and we get stuck in this emptiness.
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Zen is free; Zen training is not. The training is bound to time and place, and tied
up with customs and tradition.
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A good Buddhist, according to the books I had read, is no missionary, but tolerates
the thoughts, decisions, way of life, of others. Toleration leads to friendship.
Friendship always wins. There has never been a Buddhist war.
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Freedom and the emancipation of the ego were synonymous. And art, music in
particular, was at the forefront of all this. Those who came after Beethoven and
lived under his shadow, so to speak—Berlioz, Wagner, Liszt, Schumann—all lived
eccentric, stormy lives. Eccentricity was seen as almost the ideal lifestyle. The
age of Romanticism, they called it.
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A bit of shape and form has disappeared from the world, increasing the amount of
nothingness."
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"What is it?" "It's not something you can get across in words. The real response is
something words can't express." "There you go," Sada replies. "Exactly. If you
can't get it across in words then it's better not to try." "Even to yourself?" I
ask. "Yeah, even to yourself," Sada says. "Better not to try to explain it, even to
yourself."
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"Every one of us is losing something precious to us," he says after the phone stops
ringing. "Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back
again. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads—at least
that's where I imagine it—there's a little room where we store those memories. A
room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own
heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off
every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In
other words, you'll live forever in your own private library."
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his first satori experience consisted of recognizing all people as himself.

Everybody he met had his own face."
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"I wouldn't know, Han-san" I said. "Yesterday we were all invisible. People made
out of transparent clear glass. I didn't see you. That's the way it is in Japan,
isn't it?"
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Haven't you ever considered the possibility that time doesn't exist? That there is
nothing but 'now'? 'Now' you can do something. 'Now' is eternity.
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brushing my hair and shaving carefully, and I had been aware that I had been doing
all this to make an impression. Everything had been done consciously: I had been
proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It
went on like this: how clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to
think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.
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dangling my legs into the empty sky. The merest self-inflicted push and whoops,
China gone and the 700 million Chinese too. But how about my soul? Buddha had
always refused to answer the question. Soul or no soul, life after death or no life
after death, an empty question. Walk the eightfold path and the question will drop
away by itself, later, now, it doesn't matter.
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Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain
detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.
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The Lowland (Lahiri, Jhumpa)
- Your Highlight at location 1881-1882 | Added on Thursday, 18 October 2018
08:55:39
She knew that the word providence meant foresight, the future beheld before it was
experienced.
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She bore his weight when he collapsed on top of her, when he had nothing more to
give.
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In Hindu philosophy the three tenses—past, present, future—were said to exist

simultaneously in God. God was timeless, but time was personified as the god of
death.
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constructed from narrow bricks, sections of filigree

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constructed from narrow bricks, sections of filigree missing.

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When one lives with others and is united by a feeling of affection, one is aware of
a reason for living, and one perceives that one is not quite worthless and
superfluous, but perhaps good for something, because we need each other, and make
the same journey as travelling-companions; but that feeling of proper self-esteem
also depends very much on our relations to others.
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Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
(Sharma, Robin)
- Your Highlight at location 171-171 | Added on Sunday, 18 November 2018 16:59:08
floating in a stream drifts according to the flow of the current

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Maturana.B-WhereIstheProbleminDesignStudio
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Abstract Design studio is characterised by a teaching model that is distinctly

suited for problemsolving.Correspondingly, literature, including information
produced by Australian faculties of architecture about their courses asserts that
design studio is modelled around problemsolving.However, my research into design
studio handouts found a common omission in posing a ‘problem’—a problem that would
justify a design solution and from which the ´significance´ of the task would
derive. I argue that a well-articulated design problem imbues the case with purpose
and significance. It also provides a benchmark against which the results can be
assessed and verified.Keywords: Architectural education; Problem-solving; Design
studio INTRODUCTION AND RESEARCH BACKGROUND Most literature, including recent
research and information produced by faculties of architecture in Australia,
asserts that the design studio is modelled around problem-solving (Ostwald &
Williams, 2008).However, an issue that permeates the findings in this paper is that
of posing a ‘problem’— a problem that requires a design solution. The interest in
reality in design studio (reality understood as the quotidian, or the commonplace)
and consequently for a design problem
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Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Joanne K. Rowling)
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Grunnings, die Bohrmaschinen herstellte. Er war groß und bullig

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- Your Highlight at location 2018-2019 | Added on Saturday, 8 December 2018
00:26:12
Theo, are you perhaps in love too? I wish you were, for believe me, even the little
miseries of it have their value . . .
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Gawande, Atul)
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prompted no family crisis meeting, no anguished debates over what to do with him.
It was clear that the family would ensure my grandfather could continue to live as
he
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14:45:28
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped.

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We believe that, with help, the remembering self will later see matters differently
than the experiencing self
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I think that nothing awakens us to the reality of life so much as a true love . . .
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Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
(Sharma, Robin)
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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or
far away.”
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L - Naipaul, V S - In A Free State (Shreevatsa R)
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the only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.'
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STEVEN PRESSFIELD (The War of Art Break Through the Blocks;Win your Inner Creative
Battles (2003, Warner books))
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it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank
square of canvas.
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- Your Highlight at location 544-546 | Added on Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:41:46
amateur. T h e professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a

by-product of work. T h e professional
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Friends sometimes ask, "Don't you get lonely sitting by yourself all d a y ? " At
first it seemed odd to hear myself answer N o . Then I realized that I was not
alone; I was in the book; I was with the characters. I was with my Self.
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h e p a r t w e create from c a n ' t b e t o u c h e d b y a n y t h i n g o u r p

a r e n t s d i d , o r s o c i e t y d i d . T h a t p a r t i s u n s u l l i e d
, u n c o r r u p t e d ; s o u n d p r o o f , w a t e r p r o o f , a n d T H E W
A R O F A R T b u l l e t p r o o f . I n fact, the m o r e t r o u b l e s w e ' v
e g o t , the better and richer that part becomes. T h e part that needs healing is
our personal life.
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A n y s u p p o r t we get from p e r s o n s of flesh and b l o o d is like M o n
o p o l y m o n e y ; i t ' s not l e g a l tender in that sphere where we have to
do our w o r k . In fact, the m o r e e n e r g y we spend s t o k i n g up on s u
p p o r t from c o l l e a g u e s and l o v e d o n e s , the weaker we b e c o m
e and the less c a p a b l e o f handling our b u s i n e s s .
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T h e Marine C o r p s teaches you how to be miserable. T h i s is invaluable for

an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in
having colder chow, crappier equipment, and h i g h e r c a s u a l t y r a t e s
than a n y outfit o f d o g f a c e s , s w a b jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom
they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable.
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they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable. T
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they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable. T h e
artist c o m m i t t i n g h i m s e l f to his calling has v o l - unteered for
hell, whether he k n o w s it or not. He
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h e a m a t e u r takes it so s e r i o u s l y it p a r a l y z e s him.
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seeming detachment of the professional, the cold-blooded character to his demeanor,

is a compensating device to keep him from loving the game so much that he freezes
in action. Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money,
lowers the fever.
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To l a b o r in the arts for a n y r e a s o n o t h e r than l o v e is

prostitution.
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)
- Your Highlight at location 1617-1618 | Added on Tuesday, 26 February 2019
10:53:27
Global politics thus follows the Anna Karenina principle: successful states are all
alike, but every failed state fails in its own way,
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)
- Your Highlight at location 1781-1781 | Added on Tuesday, 26 February 2019
11:49:18
problem starts when benign patriotism morphs into chauvinistic

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The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
- Your Highlight at location 400-400 | Added on Tuesday, 5 March 2019 07:34:23
small child on a high chair. They were puffy with edema,

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The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) (Viet Thanh Nguyen)
- Your Highlight at location 62-63 | Added on Thursday, 28 March 2019 11:29:37
he would say, rapping the relevant table with adamantine

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Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata)
- Your Highlight at location 121-121 | Added on Friday, 29 March 2019 12:01:48
Keiko …” she muttered helplessly on the way home, hugging

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- Your Highlight at location 674-674 | Added on Sunday, 31 March 2019 09:12:05
leave him off the work roster,” the manager said nonchalantly.
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“Ah, the convenience store …” Shiraha said inanely.

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Auroville: Dream and Reality: An Anthology of Writing (Akash Kapur)
- Your Highlight at location 360-362 | Added on Saturday, 13 April 2019 09:02:30
everywhere.’ This community is elusive, elliptical, tenaciously inconsistent.

Utopian or all-too-human, dream or reality; it’s hard to say what Auroville is.
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Auroville: Dream and Reality: An Anthology of Writing (Akash Kapur)
- Your Highlight at location 596-597 | Added on Saturday, 13 April 2019 09:44:05
‘City of the dawn’, ‘City of Human Unity’, ‘City of the Future’ and similar phrases
were applied to Auroville in the early years with sincerity, goodwill, and, as we
can see now, considerable naivety.
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me more than a cartload full of Jesuitical compliments would

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An der Straßenecke fiel ihm zum ersten Mal etwas Merkwürdiges

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Now art dealers have certain prejudices, which I think possible you have not shaken
off yet, particularly the idea that painting is inborn – all right, inborn, but not
so as is supposed; one must put out one’s hands and grasp it – that grasping is a
difficult thing – one must not wait till it reveals itself. There is something, but
not at all what people pretend. Practice makes perfect: by painting, one becomes a
painter . . .
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You do not know how paralysing it is, that staring of a blank canvas, which says to
the painter: you don’t know anything; the canvas stares at you like an idiot, and
it hypnotizes some painters, so that they themselves become idiots. Many painters
are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real
passionate painter, who dares – and who has once for all broken that spell of ‘you
cannot’ . . .
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You do not know how paralysing it is, that staring of a blank canvas, which says to
the painter: you don’t know anything; the canvas stares at you like an idiot, and
it hypnotizes some painters, so that they themselves become idiots. Many painters
are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real
passionate painter, who dares – and who has once for all broken that spell of ‘you
cannot’ . . .
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‘Indian Architecture’ and the Production of a Postcolonial Discourse (Shaji K.
Panicker)
“India as a female, Indian thought as a dream, caste society as a centrifuge, and

of Hinduism as a jungle or even a sponge.” 19 Pursued under the
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everything worth considering in Indian art or architecture was introduced by some

foreign influence.
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Tillotson extends an implicit concern for identity to contemporary 20th century

architectural explorations by observing “India’s more thoughtful architects,” and
their attempts “to revive Indian architectural values.” 30 Tillotson challenges the
contemporary approaches by well-established architects from the Delhi-Ahmedabad-
Mumbai regions in their specific attempts to “tranform” Indian tradition—both in
their practice and writings—in their self-proclaimed rejection of the Modern
movement in Indian architecture. 31 Tillotson sums up by saying, “an educated
Indian might be forgiven for being unsure whether he will find a greater self-
respect in continuing to follow Western tastes or in returning to his heritage.” 32
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“One did not have to reject India’s Muslim, or even British, colonial heritage once
it could be seen as absolved and absorbed by the force of “Hindu”/Indian
spirituality.” Ibid., 24.
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Bozdogan offers two basic principles to keep in mind; first, “not to lose sight of
the provisional nature of identity politics” in postcolonial critiques of
architecture, and second, “not to lose sight of the absence of any necessary and/or
automatic connection between the work of art/architecture and its politics
(original emphases).”
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6 In the light of this argument, the generation of foreign-returned architects,

therefore, had multiple advantages over those educated in India. They were
consistently being involved in architectural projects connected with nation-
building activities. Further, their teaching commissions in schools of
architecture, involvement with development programmes at both the urban and
grassroots levels, and their commitment to writing about such concerns—such
activities, in hindsight, promoted the institutionalisation of what Indian
architecture meant to them.
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During this period and possibly related to the rise in Hindu communalism, there was
a marked shift, in the architectural context, towards more traditional ( Vedic and
Shastraic) and vernacular ways of building which were being re-evaluated by both
users and professionals as capable of offering potentially more pragmatic solutions
to the perennial problems of housing and climate in India. 10
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when her book Consuming Modernity was first conceived. After

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Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi—apart from curbing rampant violence occasioned by the
assassination—witnessed unprecedented privatisation and the denationalisation of
industry. In
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The term ‘western industrialised societies’ with inherent notions of progress and
advancement in comparison to other (read ‘Third World’) cultures and societies on
the path of progress reflects the continuing dissemination of already problematic
concepts such as ‘modernism’ and ‘postmodernism’ in architectural discourses of the
time.
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But the answer does not lie in the superficial imitation of local traditions
either, as it fails to update what is substantial about the past, and does not
address what is pressing in the present.
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Pallasmaa implies, influenced architects such as “Tadao Ando and Charles Correa and
many others” from the regions. These architects and their works are, therefore,
according to Pallasmaa, representative of the “strongest contemporary traditions.”
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the [Third World] architect must avoid both international and national stereotypes.
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At this stage it would be well to pause and contemplate: industrialization can be

utilized in a different manner than has been the case generally during the last
century, which was characterized by a mistaken division between the fine arts, the
decorative arts and utilitarian objects. The distinction was that fine art has no
practical use, decorative art no symbolic meaning and the utilitarian object no
pretensions to beauty. This attitude has been the root cause of much of the banal
architecture of the last 50 years.
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So one must strike while the iron is hot . .

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I have a lover’s clear sight or a lover’s blindness for work just now. Because
these colours about me are all new to me, and give me extraordinary exaltation. I
have no thought of fatigue, I shall do another picture this very night, and I shall
bring it off . . .
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A game of thrones (George Martin)
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“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength.
Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used
to hurt you.”
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told, he did not know what to make of them himself. Was he their commander or their
captive? Most of the time, it seemed to be a little of both. “It might be best
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valiant . . . and the master of whisperers must be sly and obsequious

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Stumbling on Happiness (Daniel Gilbert)
they were wrong then too. Every day would be a repudiation

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When we think of events in the distant past or distant future we tend to think
abstractly about why they happened or will happen, but when we think of events in
the near past or near future we tend to think concretely about how they happened or
will happen.20
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This tendency to fill in the holes in our memories of the past with material from
the present is especially powerful when it comes to remembering our emotions.
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If the past is a wall with some holes, the future is a hole with no walls. Memory
uses the filling-in trick, but imagination is the filling-in trick, and if the
present lightly colors our remembered pasts, it thoroughly infuses our imagined
futures.
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of presentism, but it is not the only one.
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The fact that it is so much easier to remember the past than to generate the
possible causes us to make plenty of weird decisions.
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The facts are these: (a) value is determined by the comparison of one thing with
another; (b) there is more than one kind of comparison we can make in any given
instance; and (c) we may value something more highly when we make one kind of
comparison than when we make a different kind of comparison.
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Historians use the word presentism to describe the tendency to judge historical
figures by contemporary standards.
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backward. Because predictions about the future are made in the present, they are
inevitably influenced by the present.
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of World War II; and the previous century of avuncular

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spoke in a second language of innuendo and double entendre.

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its existence an affront not only to a capitalism corseted,

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The 5 AM Club (Robin Sharma)
- Your Highlight at location 421-422 | Added on Wednesday, 10 July 2019 08:47:48
F1 racer Mario Andretti said: ‘If everything seems under control you’re not going
fast enough.’
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the soreness of growth is so much less expensive than the devastating costs of
regret.”
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- Your Highlight at location 623-624 | Added on Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:01:53
“only people who are capable of loving strongly can suffer great sorrow,” while the
Sufi poet Rumi wrote, “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
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“Profound,” the artist contributed, showing great exuberance

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Going deep and embracing—to use your words—granularity

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Going deep and embracing—to use your words—granularity

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Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this
gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
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poet Rumi: Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave
this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
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poet Rumi: Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave
this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
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Philip of Macedonia in a message to Sparta: “You are advised to submit without

further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms,
slay your people and raze your city.” Sparta’s reply: “If.”
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and it was over a silky smooth white pottage that I commiserated

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was over a silky smooth white pottage that I commiserated

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casino operator. Hobby: Viet Cong tax collector. We cordoned

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“Resentment.” That’s a good word. Always resent, never relent.

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over the table to whisper the rest. We’re sending a reconnaissance

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white lie? Nothing. I was left with the beat of a trashy discotheque
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I admit to not being an aficionado of children, having been one and having found my
cohort and myself generally despicable. Unlike many, I was not intent on
reproducing myself, deliberately or accidentally, since one of myself was more than
enough for me to handle.
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Designing the Modern City (Eric Mumford)
urban design outcomes just mentioned. More polemical

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Designing the Modern City (Eric Mumford)
clear accounts of the many specific European urban design outcomes just mentioned.
More polemical
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Altogether there were a dozen of us on the reconnaissance

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Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall)
at the very southern tip of the continent with access to two oceans, its natural
wealth of gold, silver and
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developed than many African nations, thanks to its location at the very southern
tip of the continent with access to two oceans, its natural wealth of gold, silver
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‘to ensure that all residents benefit from any proposals for conservation’. Bayley
further argues that conservation should only be recommended if: any design or other
faults having been put right, the building will continue to be viable in the
future, and residents support the proposals.
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One of the attractions of Modern Movement architecture is the broad commitment to

what might be called progressive practice, and social equality was a key theme for
those who continued to address the social agenda of Modernism3.
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investment; � an enhanced physical environment; � conservation of built heritage.
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energy needs. This would allow it to bypass the Strait of Malacca, which as we saw
in the chapter on China is a choke point that could strangle Chinese economic
growth. In the spring of 2015, the two countries agreed a $46 billion deal to build
a superhighway of roads, railways and pipelines running 1,800 miles from Gwadar to
China’s Xinjiang region. The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, as it is called,
will give China direct access to the Indian Ocean and beyond. Massive Chinese
investment in building a land route such as this would make Pakistan very happy,
and this is one of the reasons Pakistan will
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is a choke point that could strangle Chinese economic growth. In the spring of
2015, the two countries agreed a $46 billion deal to build a superhighway of roads,
railways and pipelines running 1,800 miles from Gwadar to China’s Xinjiang region.
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access to the Indian Ocean and beyond. Massive Chinese investment in building a
land route such as this would make Pakistan very happy, and this is one of the
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1,800 miles from Gwadar to China’s Xinjiang region. The China–Pakistan Economic
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These unique urban compositions are under threat due to a process of renewal. The
image of the post-war modernist districts is a bad one: too much of the same small
dwellings, all social housing; bad quality of public space; unclear boundaries
between public and private; malfunctioning of common spaces; a functionalist, dull
architecture. The modernist ideas on collectivism and lifestyles don’t fit our
fragmented, globalized society.
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In this way, renewal means wiping out a complete historic layer, existing human
urban patterns and social structures.
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Difficult processes are cut into small pieces. The project boundaries are as narrow
as possible. Due to that, there is no room for transformation, discussion or
change.4
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In this way, the city physically and socially can develop, adapt, change, grow; in
short, enrich instead of starting all over again after only 40 years.
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despite the dramatic decision made in the late 1950s to move the capital
(previously Rio de Janeiro) several hundred miles inland to the purpose-built city
of Brasilia in an attempt to develop the heart of Brazil.
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roll call. The door was flung open, and the snowstorm blew into
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- Your Highlight at location 805-805 | Added on Wednesday, 14 August 2019 12:42:31
its inmates were under his protection. The delegate billeted

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free, they thought they could use their freedom licentiously

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Let us consider, for instance, “Sunday neurosis,” that kind of depression which
afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the
rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
after Kumiko fell asleep. The soldiers were all asleep there. The sky overhead was
filled with stars, and millions of
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The variety of professions in this world was amazing, each assigned its place amid
the paper’s neat rows, as on a new graveyard map.
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ideals of the Modern Movement have been superseded and overtaken by the powers of
the market economy and political populism.
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Convincing the layman of these values is especially difficult when the ensemble
“reflects the associated social and economic problems” of that place.
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- Your Note at location 3052 | Added on Wednesday, 4 September 2019 11:56:55
Demolition
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If we define the present town planning problems and examine the prime objectives
that could be used to overcome future challenges, we see that the standards laid
down by Modern experiences still offer a positive final balance.
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11:59:50
Urban Regeneration, such as the typical urban rebuilding schemes carried out before
and after the 2nd World War
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One of the great achievements of Modernism, and possibly the most undervalued, is
its way of creating cities from rules of composition superior to the classical
rules. Le Corbusier defined it in “Precisiones”5 as: COMPOSITION = Nature +
Geometry
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These unique urban compositions are under threat due to a process of renewal. The
image of the post-war modernist districts is a bad one: too much of the same small
dwellings, all social housing; bad quality of public space; unclear boundaries
between public and private; malfunctioning of common spaces; a functionalist, dull
architecture. The modernist ideas on collectivism and lifestyles don’t fit our
fragmented, globalized society.
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- Your Highlight at location 4457-4457 | Added on Friday, 6 September 2019 10:44:24
together all along now, and I think I have a pretty good idea how you feel about
it. So now let me do the thinking.
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- Your Highlight at location 4466-4466 | Added on Friday, 6 September 2019 10:45:18
more, but I can’t do it yet. I think I’ll have to tell you sometime.”
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The Art of Loving (Erich Fromm)
- Your Highlight at location 843-844 | Added on Friday, 15 November 2019 14:25:03
If the desire for physical union is not stimulated by love, if erotic love is not
also brotherly love, it never leads to union in more than an orgiastic, transitory
sense.
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Building-Economics-and-Sociology Notes (pranjalkulkarni98@gmail.com)
- Your Highlight at location 108-110 | Added on Tuesday, 26 November 2019 10:53:00
More resources are used in the economy. Existing resources are used more
efficiently.
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Theory of Income, Output and Employment

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inflation, deflation and reflation.

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Macro Theory of Distribution dealing with the relative shares of wages and profits
in the total national income.
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To understand why the overall flow of output and income fluctuates; what factors
lead to the growth in the productive capacity and what are social and economic cost
of economy’s growth, it is necessary to study the field of aggregate economics
i.e., total output income.
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the theory of consumer behaviour and the theory of production and costs. Theory of
Factor pricing. Theory of Economic Welfare.
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What might be right policy of an individual, a firm or an industry may not be right
for the economic system as a whole.
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Price theory is the main tool of microeconomics because the properties of market
supply and demand functions are generally built up from assumptions about the
actions of households or firms
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Analysis of consumption, investment and labour supply behaviour of a household firm

is an example of micro economics. [4]
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In economics, factors of production are the resources employed to produce goods and
services.
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The payment for someone else's labor and all income received from one’s own labor
is wages.
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Job creation depends on the expansion of the economy. The supply of labour must
also consider the quality of labour and how efficiently the workers do the tasks
given to them.
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Financial capital is simply the amount of money the initiator of the business has
invested in it.
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Enterprise/Entrepreneurship is the risk taking activity that utilizes land, labour

and capital to produce goods or services in the expectation of a future reward
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.Land economics is a branch of the economics which focuses on the use of land and
the role of land in economics.
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It is nature’s free gift. It is fixed in quantity. It doesn’t have any supply

value. It is permanent. Land lacks mobility in geographical sense. Land provides
infinite variation of degree, fertility and situation so that no two pieces of land
are exactly alike.
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HEALTHFUL HOUSING COMMUNICATION FACILITIES ADVANCES IN CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
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One of the fields of focus in land economics is the allocation of land. As a fixed
resource, land's value is dictated by its availability, and the allocation of land
resources can play a critical role in how land is treated.
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Researchers in this field may look at issues like government acquisition of land to
satisfy right of way requirements for roadways and utilities,
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They also look at how land can be made more profitable, and how land values shift
over time in response to a variety of factors including market pressures and the
discovery of natural resources.
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Land economics is a branch of economics field which focuses on the use of land and
the role of land in economics.
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Changing landforms from a natural or semi-natural state for a purpose such as

agriculture or housing. Subdividing real estate into lots, typically for the
purpose of building homes. Developing property or changing its purpose, for example
by converting an unused factory complex into condominiums.
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The conversion of land from one use to another is the generally accepted definition
of land development. [2]
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The systematic approach to the land use planning, analysis and engineering is known
as land development design.
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Feasibility/programming initiates the process with a general review of proposed

program and existing site conditions, with particular emphasis on identification of
environmental, cultural and infrastructure resources.
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Site analysis determines the allowable use of the site based on local master plans,
codes and ordinances and recommends a course of action
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Conceptual design presents the initial organisation of the development program

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Schematic design is a refinement of the initial concept sketches that adds scale,
dimensions and precise testing of specific uses, including building arrangements
and infrastructure systems.
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Final design is the conclusion to the primary design effort. Carried out
predominantly by engineers, preliminary plans are enhanced with a level of detail
sufficient to construct all aspects of the project
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Plan submission and permitting represent the formal regulatory review of final
design
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Construction is the final step in land development process.

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Land being the major non renewable natural resource is inelastic in nature
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Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action or inaction taken by
governmental entities (the decisions of government) with regard to a particular
issue or set of issues.
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"Public policy is commonly embodied "in constitutions, legislative acts, and

judicial decisions.
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only in 1976 when a comprehensive land ceiling legislation took place. Despite
these efforts India lacks a comprehensive Urban Land Policy. Neither the Government
of India nor the State Government has formulated any such policy.
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Reports/papers brought out by the central or State government Five year Plans
Legislation
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The Fifth Five Year Plan is of great significance so far as urban land policy is
concerned. It recognized that, perhaps the most important instrument necessary for
achieving breakthrough in urban development will be the formulation of Urban Land
Policy. In the Sixth Plan the thrust of urbanization policy was on development of
small and medium towns and achieving balanced distribution of urban population.
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Optimum social use of urban land. Supply of adequate quantity of land at reasonable
prices. Encouraging community effort for land development and housing. Preventing
concentration of land ownership
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Town Planning Legislation including Urban Development Authority Acts: To control

the use of land with a view to regulate its planned growth and development.
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Land Acquisition Act: To acquire land for public purposes.

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Slum Improvement and Clearance Act: To improve the living conditions of slum
dwellers. Urban Land Ceiling and Development Act: To improve ceiling limits on land
holdings and achieve equitable distribution of urban land.
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Municipal enactment including building byelaws: To control building activities.

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Cost items fall as the number of storeys increases, e.g. roofs, foundation. (2)
Cost items rise as the number of storeys increases, e.g. lift installation, fire
services. (3) Cost items fall initially and then rise as the number of storeys
increases, e.g. curtain walling. (4) Cost items unaffected by height, e.g. floor
finishes, do
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The Physical Environment

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The Social Environment

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15:51:12
Sociology distinguishes the term organization into planned formal and unplanned
informal organizations. Sociology analyzes organizations in the first line from an
institutional perspective.
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15:54:55
Bureaucracy is a concept in sociology and political science referring to the way

that the administrative execution and enforcement of legal rules are socially
organized.
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07:56:01
I put my hand on the cat’s chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint
and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small
body with all the restless earnestness of my own.
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04:14:32
I sometimes feel that by concentrating on my work like this, with all the mindless
determination of an ant, I’m getting closer to the “real me.” I don’t know how to
put it, but it’s kind of like by not thinking about myself I can get closer to the
core of my self. That’s what I mean by “kind of weird.”
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04:17:14
Do you know what you’re going to be doing three years from now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird?
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Godan (Hindi) (Munshi Premchand)
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लो। और आज न जाओगे तो कौन हरज़ होगा। अभी तो परसों गये थे।’

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17:26:08
All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened
one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I
lose track. Viewed at more of a distance, though, the thread running through them
is perfectly clear.
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A Pattern Language (Center for Environmental Structure Series) (Alexander,
Christopher)
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16:55:56
The ratio of indoor area to site area (FAR—for floor area ratio) cannot thus exceed
0.5 in a single story building, 1.0 in a two story, 1.5 in a three story and 2.0 in
a four story building.
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Christopher)
17:00:45
shielded parking structure.

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Christopher)
17:02:09
Make the entrance to the parking lot a natural gateway to the buildings which it
serves, and place it so that you can easily see the main entrance to the building
from the entrance to the parking.
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Christopher)
17:04:30
In many modern building complexes the problem of disorientation is acute. People

have no idea where they are, and they experience considerable mental stress as a
result.
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Christopher)
17:37:02
PROMENADE (31), SHOPPING STREET (32) and NETWORK OF PATHS AND CARS (52),
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Christopher)
23:54:37
Public places are meant to invite free loitering.

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Christopher)
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2020 09:17:06
Thus, in places in the street where seats, activities, entrances, and counters are
placed, the street should widen to about 16 feet (one
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Christopher)
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2020 09:17:21
the higher the ceiling, the more distant people seem from each other.
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The Paradoxical Prime Minister (Unknown)
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stalwart),
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heard dismaying reports of their being marginalized and ghettoized

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tranquil capital, Ahmedabad, and other places in Gandhi’s homeland.

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Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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know then that all these places had only the most tenuous
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Great Expectations (Dickens, Charles)

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describe them without committing a breach of the laws of decent speech.

working through generations, and leading to the most outré

'Of such inconsequential beginnings dynasties are begun,'

"Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to

"Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to

own virtue. She spoke evenly, without inflection.

'Ellsworth' is the monument to my parents' peculiar taste in nomenclature."

formation as delicate as the work of a jeweler;

an incredible variety of shapes, each separate unit unrepeated, but leading

"I feel infinite."

present. He wore them with the careless impertinence

clarity: 'nothing' is superior to 'something.'

clarity: 'nothing' is superior to 'something.' Thus it is clear that the architect

clarity: 'nothing' is superior to 'something.' Thus it is clear that the architect

here? With no mask? This place has a ton of asbestos.”

implication that 'a crowd' is a term of opprobrium.

he lay in bed with a woman. "We are fornicating

He was shrewd, competent and unscrupulous

sternly, "for comparing yourself to a man as contemptible

voice. “Father took the king down to the crypts

“Follow me, and try to look a shade more lecherous

told him, grinning. The world was full of cravens

hübsche Häuser und am Fenster eines derselben

jedem Fenster war in den Balken ein fratzenhaftes

wären. „Das ist eine schöne Blume!“

remembering how he’d found him, that day in

remembering how he’d found him, that day in

remembering how he’d found him, that day in

Knowledge of this kind is called a priori, in contradistinction to empirical

Knowledge of this kind is called a priori, in contradistinction to empirical

misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention

wondering what idiocy I had committed. Entailments

Jean Louise,” she said, “Where are your britches

Jean Louise,” she said, “Where are your britches

And, as though this were his natural position of

since no records will remain of their phone

The colonel was gorgeous. He had a cavernous

38. Zheng He’s flagship next to that of Columbus.

‘Scotland is more like Spain than Bengal is like the Punjab.’

majority. Four compact states would replace the melange

the free market, a scholar of art history, a noted bon

redeem the unfulfilled promises of the freedom

aspersions on his probity or character. That she

a possible comeback. So, while Chavan prevaricated,

India is no longer a constitutional democracy but a populist

India is no longer a constitutional democracy but a populist one.

You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.”

“Sleep tight, ya morons.” —J. D. SALINGER

A fuller formation of Descartes’s philosophy would be Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo

You don’t know a father’s weight Until it’s lifted.

enjoyment which was considered proper during the Physical

very careful with him for he seems to be in a fit of contrariness.’

admire as much as you can, most people do not admire enough.

execution device wasn't some metaphor or allegory—it's

In dreams begin responsibilities.

a fifteen-year-old kid. Why is it that these days it's

Indifference is an unpleasant word, so perhaps one should say "detachment."

only real heaven, the sphere of God himself. But Buddhism

the only real heaven, the sphere of God himself. But

his first satori experience consisted of recognizing all people as himself.