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I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

~Arne Jacobsen

Topics: Any Architecture Buildings Done Excluded Long Properly See Should Term

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Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

~Art Bell

Topics: Accomplished Actually Begin Bring Buildings Detail Done Down Economy Entire Even Fear God Great Hit Look Motivator Nation Other Pentagon Slammed Stunned Than

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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Always Been Buildings Case Every Great Heart Move Poetic Products Rare Spirit Unique

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We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Appreciate Buildings Cannot Comprehend Medieval Really Single Town Understand We Cannot Whole

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No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Buildings California Desert Design Dream Film Film Industry Industry Like No Wonder Rather Started Than Them Where Wonder

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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Because Brief Buildings Cannot Close Great Great Minds Little Live Magnitude Minds Related See Span Square Stand Standing Them Time Too Which You

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I enjoy walking through Nolita and Chinatown, watching the people and the buildings, browsing through shops and stopping at little cafes for a cup of coffee or glass of wine.

~Aslaug Magnusdottir

Topics: Buildings Coffee Cup Enjoy Glass Little People Shops Stopping Through Walking Watching Wine

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I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Topics: Again Beauty Because Buildings City Go God Just Love Mecca Might Mosque Much Sheer Vatican Visit Way

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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Broke Buildings Classrooms Destroyed Korean Korean War Left Out Six Studied Trees War Were Whatever

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In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

~Bastian Schweinsteiger

Topics: Buildings Manchester Munich Proper Tall You

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