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"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."
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"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
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"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
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"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."
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"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves."
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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
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"Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand."
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"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
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"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
Art
"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
Man
"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."
Art
"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."
Life
"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
Experience
"No man is good enough to be another's master."
Man
"If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."
Love
"Give me love and work - these two only."
Love
"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."
Imagination
"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
Future
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