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Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected – accessible and user-friendly.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
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