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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."
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"A cup of tea is all I need to keep working."
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"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."
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"Let it be simple, let it be with love."
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"Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!"
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"Adorn yourself with modest dressing."
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"In a day a man needs only his daily bread."
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"The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding."
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"To be simple, be kind. To be free, be non-judgmental. To be happy, be kind and loving."
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"Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness."
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"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."
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"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
Simplicity

"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."
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"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
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"When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated."
Advertising

"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."
Architecture

"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."
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"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."
Architecture

"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces."
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"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
Luxury
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