"A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street."

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Source : Jean Ferriss Leich, Hugh Ferriss (1980). “Architectural visions: the drawings of Hugh Ferriss”

Hugh Ferriss

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“I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.”

Source : "O.J. Simpson: 10 years later". "Dateline" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. June 18, 2004.
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
“A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.”
“When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.”
“The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.”
“People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.”
“She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.”

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