"We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles"

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Source : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158

Henry Mayhew

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“Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.”
“You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.”
“I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.”

Source : "Contemporary Architects". Book by Muriel Emanuel and Dennis Sharp, 1980.
“I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.”
“Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesnt? But famous-famous? I just dont care about it. And if you genuinely dont give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.”
“I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.”
“I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.”
“You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.”

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