"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid."

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture."

Tabitha Soren, American Celebrity

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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

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"I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced."

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"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."

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"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."

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"Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England."

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"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."

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"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."

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"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."

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"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization."

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"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."

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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."

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"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."

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