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So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important. -- Gunther Schuller
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. -- John C. Portman, Jr.
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future. -- Mark Kennedy
I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land. -- Dave Matthews
You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing. -- Pope Francis
The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs. -- Bill Johnson
Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice -- Nelson Mandela

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