"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."

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Source : As quoted in "The Ultimate Book of Quotations edited by Joseph Demakis" by Joseph Demakis, (p. 13), 2012.

Arthur Erickson

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“It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.”
“The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.”
“One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else”
“I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.”
“The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security.”
“The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.”
“It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.”
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”

Source : George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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