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Here’s to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship and the gate of pleasant folly.

W.E.P. French

Posted on Tuesday, October 23rd 2012

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Albert Einstein

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Posted on Friday, June 8th 2012

And those who were seen
dancing
were thought to be insane
by those
who could not hear
the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Posted on Wednesday, April 4th 2012

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Charles Eames

Posted on Friday, March 23rd 2012

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with a compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Elizabeth Kubler Ros

Posted on Friday, March 9th 2012