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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"I've got a great place, it's a country house."
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"We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it."
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"Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs."
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"The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried."
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"When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain."
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"Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country."
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"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
Thought
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
Houses
"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."
Design
"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."
Art
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
Houses
"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
Man
"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."
Nature
"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
Life
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
Architecture
"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
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