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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. Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with but by the time you've got all this great wisdom you don't get to be young anymore.
  • 2. I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from and I've been a sponge.
  • 3. The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It was a relief to be able to do my own band because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.
  • 2. The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
  • 3. Adele's amazing I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

3 Anger

  • 1. The reason why I love people and writing about them is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.
  • 2. I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine if you want – but also some sort of sadness and plain mischief of course.
  • 3. Usually when people are sad they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry they bring about a change.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
  • 2. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 3. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
  • 2. I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
  • 3. The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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