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Find optimism in the inevitable.


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Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.



A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.



Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.



Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.



Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.



It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.



Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.



The good is not a category that interests me.

The good is not a category that interests me.



The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.



Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.





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Regardless of what you are going through, God has a solution



The more I read the Quran, the clearer I see the hidden wickedness lurking in the shadows of my soul.

The more I read the Quran, the clearer I see the hidden wickedness lurking in the shadows of my soul.



Why does everyone see me as a sink when I am an ocean?

Why does everyone see me as a sink when I am an ocean?



It was one of those years when there was no summer. There was no winter either. It was just November all year that year.

It was one of those years when there was no summer. There was no winter either. It was just November all year that year.



No one gave us life, we're the products of an explosion.

No one gave us life, we're the products of an explosion.



I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.



Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.

Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.



A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.



I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.



We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.

We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.




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