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  • I hold no brief for private enterprise.But I have unshakeable faith in individual enterprise.

    - C(harles) L(uther) Burton
      A Sense of Urgency: Memoirs of a Canadian Merchant.

  •   Architects cannot work in a vacuum; unlike other artists theyare totally dependent on a site, a brief and finance.

    - Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers
      22nd annualWalter Neurath lecture. Collected in Architecture: a ModernView.

  • The process of learning is accompanied by alternations of pain and brief quickenings that resemble pain.

    -Thornton Niven Wilder
      The Eighth Day.

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