"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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"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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"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
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