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I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren't afraid to try something new.

— Philip Johnson

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Lack of leadership and direction in the state has let the one group get control who always gain power in a nation's time of weakness—the Jews.

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[T]he anti-Semitism, I was in on, and that's the part I'm really ashamed of.

[T]he German green uniforms made the place look gay and happy. There were not many Jews to be seen. We saw Warsaw burn and Modlin being bombed. It was a stirring spectacle.

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