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We all know a Christmas NUT who believes in Santa Claus, his flying Rain Deer and the slave Elf workforce he has at the North Pole...


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LAURENS VAN DER POST We have the responsibility to care for the ocean as it cares for us
SUZANNE VAN DER VEEKEN Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the c...
LAURENS VAN DER POST Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
LAURENS VAN DER POST I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and s...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK The contrast with the scans of the eighteen chronic PTSD patients with severe early-life trauma was ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for ou...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The idea of service leads to community.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This i...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfoldi...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That i...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new buildi...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real h...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reach...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A c...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and fort...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, no...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE God is in the details.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I co...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good polit...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will rema...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last for...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us o...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their ins...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of...
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