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"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
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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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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
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"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
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"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"
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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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"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
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"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."
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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid."
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"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
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"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
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"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."
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"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom."
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"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
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"Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave."
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"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."
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"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."
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"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
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