The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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