"Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city."

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Source : Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation

Le Corbusier

#Cities Quotes #Waiting Quotes #House Quotes

“I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor.”
“Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.”
“Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger,”
“I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.”
“One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.”
“Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?”
“You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.”
“True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.”

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