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"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
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"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."
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"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
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"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."
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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
Christian
"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."
Love
"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."
Life
"They never fail who die in a great cause."
Cause
"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."
Politics
"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."
Truth
"The busy have no time for tears."
Time
"This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all."
Fear
"I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness."
Happiness
"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."
Religion
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