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"America has always imported history."
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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
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"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
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"By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?"
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
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"We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable."
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"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
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"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."
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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."
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"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
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"America has always imported history."
History
"When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today."
America
"I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity."
Creativity
"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."
Architecture
"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
Work
"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
Consequence
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
Being
"A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive."
Experience
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
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