"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."

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"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."

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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Body, Water

"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Body, Man, Water, World

"The body has a mind of its own."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Body, Fact, Will

"The body is not a reliable friend."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction."

Work

"The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that."

God

"When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life."

Life

"At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world."

Architecture

"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism."

Soul

"Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness."

Dream

"What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years."

Creativity

"Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean."

Education

"I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking."

Creativity

"Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny."

Enemy