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"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
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"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."
"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."
"An important work of architecture will create polemics."
"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."
"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."
"The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent."
"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."
"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."
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