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"The world system is employment."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."
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"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."

"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."

"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."

"Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate."

"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
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