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Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.


Marcus V. Pollio


#architect #buildings #care #due #more

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.


Marcus V. Pollio


#architecture #arising #arts #formed #help

From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.


Marcus V. Pollio


#approaching #enemy #exterior #face #left

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.


Marcus V. Pollio


#also #architect #assign #fails #forms

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.


Alexander Pope


#child #gentle #man #manners #mild

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.


Alexander Pope


#blunt #counsel #enough #falsehoods #mischief

Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.


John Pople


#children #i #immeasurably #laureates #like

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.


John Pople


#brought #children #churchill #each #east

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.


Michael Porter


#chief #leader #organization #strategist

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.


Jane Porter


#authors #chief #country #dr #glory






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