"But the building's identity resided in the ornament."
-Louis Sullivan
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
-Maya Angelou
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
-Ernest Hemingway
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"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
-Constantin Brancusi
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"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
-Winston Churchill
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"Architecture is about public space held by buildings."
-Richard Rogers
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