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Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or

Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. – Samuel Butler

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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. – Samuel Butler

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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. – Samuel Butler

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Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful youll be: How good are you at going around obstacles? – Jeremy Renner

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Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. – Helmut Jahn

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What is being called the UN gender architecture is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. – Charlotte Bunch

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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. – James Rouse

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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. – Maya Lin

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