"Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany."
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
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"True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life."
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."
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"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
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"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
-Jude Law
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"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."
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"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
-Lenny Kravitz
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
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"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."
-William Hague
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"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
-Phyllis Diller
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