"Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America."

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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."

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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."

Simon Newcomb, Canadian Mathematician

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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

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"The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy."

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"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."

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

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

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

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"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."

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"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."

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