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"America has always imported history."
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"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
Consequence
"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
Chicago
"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
Work
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
Artist
"You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction."
Beauty
"Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air."
People
"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
"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
Creativity
"Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level."
Change
"A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it."
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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."
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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."
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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."
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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
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