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"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture."
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"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"
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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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"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
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"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."
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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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"It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?"
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"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."
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"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
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"I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts."
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"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
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"War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly."
War
"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
Books
"War is an abstraction."
War
"The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people."
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"All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light."
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"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."
Blood
"Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive."
History
"The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden."
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"For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled."
War
"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
Writer
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