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"Brilliance invents. Genius copies."
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
- Charles Mingus
And now with a new focus on civilizing the real estate megaprojects of the Middle East, East Asia and even the USA.
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