"One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city"

-- Aldo Rossi

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“It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the human race.”
“I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.”
“Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.”
“There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.”
“Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.”
“Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.”
“The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.”
“I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.”

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