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"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."

"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"
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"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."

"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."

"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."

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

"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."

"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."

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

"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."

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

"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
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