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"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."

"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."

"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."

"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."

"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."

"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."

"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."

"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
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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."

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

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

"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."

"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."

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

"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

"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."
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