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Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

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Michael Graves

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

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My favorite project is always the next one.

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If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

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Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

Affair, Architecture, Building, Design

I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get up now I put the tea kettle on, and when it starts to sing it makes me smile - goddamn you!" That's what happened when we first designed it - we got a lot of mail.

Goddamn, Mail, Morning, Smile, Starts, Tea

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

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I think it's hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change. I think that, we as a culture, feel like politics is one sector of our lives that can feel apart from our personal lives and the cultural things we're interested in and the sports we watch. It feels like this separate, different thing.

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Rob Portman

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There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

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Suzanne Collins

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And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

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Winston Churchill

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Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

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James Taranto

Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

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