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" I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. "

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Constantin Brancusi

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Francisco Costa

" To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. "

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" Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. "