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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype" »Jean-Michel Jarre
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"When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it." »Lao Tzu
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"When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao." »Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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"In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of the past." »Dan Cruickshank
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"It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order." »Douglas Hostadter
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"People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self." »Eric Hoffer
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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"architecture is the art of how to waste space." »Philip Johnson
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"architecture, n The art of how to waste space." »Philip Johnson
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"I call architecture frozen music." »Johann von Goethe
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"I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them." »Edward Irving Koch
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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." »Samuel Butler
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"You type as fast as a one footed elephant." »Aaron J. Munzer
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"The job of buildings is to improve human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse." »Ralph Erskine
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"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven." »Tryon Edwards
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"I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here." »Eric Pio
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"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." »Isaac Asimov
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"If I come back as an animal in my next lifetime, I hope it's some type of parasite, because this is the part where I take it EASY" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
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"Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma." »E. B. White
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"I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental." »Jeff Melvoin
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"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?" »Oscar Wilde
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"I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living." »Hal
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"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." »Grayson Kirk
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"Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling
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"[Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination." »Reverend W. Awdry (1911 - 1997)
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"In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man." »Confucius, Analects, IV.7
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"All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government." »SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
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