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There was an age however when the transition from savagery to civilization with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture took place for the first time.

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James H. Breasted
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Category: Architecture

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In an age of incompetence I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
  • 2. It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries but is dead to all the pleasures.
  • 3. Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants one unexpected event crashing into another with no pattern or reason and then you finally reach a point around my age where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I love vintage shopping I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.
  • 2. It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world… A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit… But it caught on especially with young people – they surprised me most of all.
  • 3. It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.

3 Anger

  • 1. There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed so beastly as doth intemperate anger.
  • 2. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits.
  • 3. I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration anger shame helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration that sense of unfairness and multiply it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
  • 2. The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
  • 3. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
  • 2. A great building must begin with the unmeasurable must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
  • 3. Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
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