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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

~Dan Phillips

Topics: Available Been Build Building Could Doing Everywhere Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Materials People Ponder Shelter Then Thousands Thousands Of Years Used Using Whatever Years You

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The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.

~Dan Phillips

Topics: Become Before Beings Bit Buried Cause Consistency Continuity Does Even Every First Human Human Beings Like Little Little Bit Maintaining Mass Mean Means Need Needs Our Perception Waste Dna

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You can put someone in a new home, but you can't give them a new mindset.

~Dan Phillips

Topics: Give Home Mindset New Put Someone Them You

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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.

~Dan Phillips

Topics: Blocks Builder Everyone Kids Look Playing Think Want I Think Dna

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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.

~Dan Phillips

Topics: Any Choosing Down Floor Gather Glue Going Just Landfill Metric Mosaic Own Then Ton Up You Your

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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

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Topics: Anything Because Complete Creates Matter Pattern Repetition Set You

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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

~Dan Phillips

Topics: Antiques Art Back Because Between Bone Difference Difficult Finding Free Illegal Ivory Only Only Difference Restoring Very

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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

~Dan Phillips

Topics: Course Get Hammer Just Lot Then Toilet Toilets Well Where You

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Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.

~Dan Phillips

Topics: Any Anything Branches Chicken Creates Difference Eggs Glass Hundred Make Nuts Pattern Possibility Repeat Repetition Those I Can

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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

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Topics: Because Beings Does Eat Group Groups Hang Human Human Beings Identify Just Like Lions Social Species Together Trying

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Designer

Born: Unknown

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