"Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns."

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Arne Jacobsen

#Block Quotes #Air Quotes #Greek Quotes

“Childhood is but change made gay and visible ...”
“In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.”
“Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.”
“Buying wine is a political act.”
“I start by thinking I'm going to make use of all possibilities without troubling any longer about problems when something starts to be art. I don't make the ETERNAL work of ART, I only give visual information.”
“We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.”

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“Reality: "If we can sue the gun manufacturers for human actions, does this mean we can sue the car manufacturers for being hit by a drunk driver?" They (in favour of gun control) must believe in the existence of a substantial number of persons who are willing and able to break serious laws such asthose prohibiting murder, assault, and robbery, yet who are not willing or able to break gun control laws. Dr.”
“Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.”

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