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"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."
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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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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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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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"Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'."
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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
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"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."
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"This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America."
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"The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens."
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"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."
America
"I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that."
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"It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building."
People
"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all."
Architecture
"At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth."
Age
"The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal."
Language
"Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it."
People
"After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration."
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"Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors."
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