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"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."

"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."

"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
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"The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam."

"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."

"We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world."

"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification."

"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."

"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."

"Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive."
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