"In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment."

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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon

Ada Louise Huxtable

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“The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
“Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential.”
“All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.”
“So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.”

Source : Gary Carey, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1972). “More about All about Eve”
“Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.”
“Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.”
“I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our new friends Vladimir Putin, Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump. Or that they would do so without an economic plan, a trading strategy, or a credible leader, making the average Briton's future more uncertain than any time since the Blitz.”

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