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A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
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Approval Design Development Feeling Home
We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
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Action Best Destruction Enthusiasm Ourselves Past
Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.
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Attitude Curious People Survive
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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Average Knowledge Position
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
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Appearance Calculation Cheap Food Myself
There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
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Age Consider Doubt Live Necessary Terrify
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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Authority Easy People Power
I find myself born into this particular position. I’m determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.
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Better Born Determination Help Hope Myself Position
It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature’s capital
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Capital Economics Evidence Important
I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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Learning Myself Parents
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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Best Farm Result Talk
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.
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Children Clever Society Straight
Why can’t we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles – and functional?
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Architect Curve Design Expression Feeling
We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.
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Change Climate Global Issues Myself Thinking Treat
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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Cover Globe Myself Time
Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
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Difficult Economy Face Warm World

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