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"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame."

"It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system."

"A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country."

"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested."

"The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially."
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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."

"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."

"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."

"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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