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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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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."
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"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."
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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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"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."
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"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."
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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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"Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact."
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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
Perspective
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."
Education
"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."
Love
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
Love
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
Success
"Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules, it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities."
Freedom
"Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not see."
Ethics
"What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity."
People
"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
Education
"Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified."
Truth
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