"Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in."

-- Philip Johnson

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“You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.”

Source : "Reinvigorating Greece is an Olympian task for prime minister Papandreou". Interview With Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.
“At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant!”
“[on having to lose weight] I thought I'll drink vodka instead of wine because it's less calories!”
“We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.”
“Be content to seem what you really are.”
“I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadnâ€™t realized it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.”
“The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what youâ€™re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.”
“If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.”

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