Some of Rudi's favourite quotes

" There are no rules of architecture for castles in the clouds. "
G.K. Chesterton
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" Perfection, then, is finally achieved, not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. "
Antoine de St. Exupery
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" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot;
others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "
Pablo Picasso
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"We will take a journey through an inner country that has to be
discovered and created at the same time. The goal of this journey
will be the end of an illusion...we will find out if our true
nature is bounded or boundless.

I invite you into a realm where everything is possible." 
Deepak Chopra
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" Come my friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world. 
Push off, and sitting well in order smite the sounding furrows; 
for my purpose holds. 
To sail beyond the sunset, and the
baths of all the western stars, until I die. "
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Alva Edison
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" Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? "
Frank Scully
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"Form and function are one."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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" A team is like a nice clock, if just one piece is missing the clock is still beautiful but 
doesn't work the same. "
Ruud Gullit
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" Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
Wernher Von Braun.
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"If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along, makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top."
 Buckminster Fuller
Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth
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" Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men."
Martin Luther King
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" Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
W.C. Fields 
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" Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
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" We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde 
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" Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the
test first, and the lesson afterward. "
Anonymous
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" At the circus, we dream with our eyes open."
Earnest Hemingway
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" Logic would state, that because a man is born in a stable; he must be a horse."
The Duke of Wellington
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" If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon and explode once a year killing everyone inside."
Robert X Cringely
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"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness call it intuition or what you will and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why."
Albert Einstein
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" Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm
in two small jumps. "
David Lloyd George
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"Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth."
Arab proverb
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" Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
Vince Lombardi,
(Green Bay Packers coach)
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"Whenever I hear the word 'culture,' I reach for my revolver."
Hermann Goring
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson
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" Space isn't remote at all.  It's only an hour's drive away if your car
could go straight upwards."
Dr Fred Hoyle 
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"What you get is a living; what you give is a life."
Lilian Gish
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"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
Aldous Huxley
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"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."
Leonardo Da Vinci
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" The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. 
But the opposite of a profound truth
may well be another profound truth."
Niels Bohr
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