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"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
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"Be simple to fill life with abundance."
"A cup of tea is all I need to keep working."
"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."
"Let it be simple, let it be with love."
"If you want to go to moksha (attain ultimate liberation), you will have to become simple and straightforward. Being obstinate won't work there. You will have to remove all the tubers; become totally free from intellect (abudh)."
"Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!"
"Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day."
"Adorn yourself with modest dressing."
"Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society."
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"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
"We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living."
"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."
"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."
"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city."
"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
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