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Quote by Leon Battista Alberti

“Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.”

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Leon Battista Alberti was a renowned Italian Renaissance author, architect, art theorist, and mathematician. He is known for his contributions to humanism and his innovative theories in art. more

“I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.”

“Without deep personal transformation, collective transformation is not possible.”

Transformation Collectives Personal Transformation

Author:Chris Corrigan

“A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.”

Men Mind Humans Political Politics Sides Failure Aim Meetings University Limitation Our Society Stations Cherish Human Mind Benign

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.”

Political Decision Power Share Economic Military Events Consequence Decided Circles Elites Intricate Clique Overlapping

Book:The Power Elite

Source: The Power Elite

“It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight.”

World Has Beens Different War Amazing Things Foresight Guise Carelessness

Author:Fidel Castro

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