"It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge."

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Source : Montgomery Schuyler (1892). “American Architecture”

Montgomery Schuyler

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“Everything goes with short hair. It's bananas.”
“If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.”

Source : Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.45, Paladin Press
“The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.”
“In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.”
“I think buying a home is the best investment that any individual can make”
“I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.”
“We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.”
“Why don't we have the chemistry that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had in Titanic? I'll tell you one reason: Because we're not in a movie!”

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