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Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.


Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

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ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
SIMON VAN DER MEER Dit is geen kroeg of studentehuis. Dit is een ziekenhuis en het is niet de bedoeling dat hier 's avo...
MYRTHE VAN DER MEER Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy.
LAURENS VAN DER POST We have the responsibility to care for the ocean as it cares for us
SUZANNE VAN DER VEEKEN Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the c...
LAURENS VAN DER POST Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
LAURENS VAN DER POST I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and s...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK The contrast with the scans of the eighteen chronic PTSD patients with severe early-life trauma was ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK Never cut short your waiting with compromise. Simply put, the waiting's not over until the waiting's...
DUKE ROHE They're going to need supplements to keep up with the other (calves).
JIM ROHE Waiting may seem in the way of us getting to where we want to go. But many times, it is through wait...
DUKE ROHE I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I co...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK BEFRIENDING THE BODY

Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and b...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gna...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK I live my life to the Power of "E.X.T.R.E.M.E." but i can multiply it by whatever is on the table...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Leave your Legacy on earth when you leave, to continue changing lives when you no longer can..
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE If your doors keep on becoming walls, your ideas are not explosive enough...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE You can stand first in line at the door of destiny, but only you can open it and walk through...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE We are not living in a tech starved world, so how do we build the next biggest thing? One idea at a ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Walking a thousand roads throughout my life, some good and some bad. I realised the one constant was...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE There were times i was sure and i tried, then times i was not sure and i never tried...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Instead of trying to change the world, rebuild it in code...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I believe that one day we will all be free, on this day our time on earth will be done...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE We all have a time and place, we would return to in the blink of an eye...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Your passion can be measured by success, the more passionate you are the more determined you will be...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE To master your enemy, is to master their mind. Once you own their mind, you own them...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Any argument that is built wholly upon the denigration of another, without any reference to evidence...
JOHANNES DIRK VAN DER MEER Beauty is not a mindset, its how you set that beautiful mind...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE In a world that has everything, it’s time to create the nothing...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Life is short with room for mistakes, just don't let mistakes take up too much room...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE If time is all we have, then time is all we need...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE When i didn't pass anyone, i thought i was running the race of life alone. Then i realised i was in ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Just take another shot, because one more shot might be all you have got...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE We all have a love for something, its what we love that ultimately sets us apart...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Rebooting my life... Please wait...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE When we change the world, we try to change future events, time lines, outcomes or even sources of ev...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE The Ghost's of your yesterday are knocking at your door, they want to give you back the key to your ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I have wondered if world changers had any idea of the impact their vision would have on humanity. Ma...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE There were times in my life i thought for sure the end was near. But it was only the end of that tim...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Time may be a finely woven thread, yet it holds our yesterday, today and tomorrow together...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Time will have its place, and every place will have its time...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE