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"All real education is the architecture of the soul."
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"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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?"

"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."

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."

"I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts."
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"Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be."

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."

"The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day."

"Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language."

"If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it."

"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."

"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty."

"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."
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