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"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."
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"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."

"The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them."

"What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them."

"If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!"

"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
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"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."

"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."

"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."

"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."

"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."

"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."

"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind."
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