"Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted."

Ability, Being, Care, Economy

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"Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted."

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"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

Walter Gilbert, American Scientist

Ability, Exercise, Learning, Writing

"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Ability, Education, Talent, Body

"Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something."

Bill Toomey, American Athlete

Ability, Journey, Value

"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

Ability, Song

"Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind."

Donna Summer, American Musician

Ability, Mind

"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Ability, Action, Effort, Success

"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."

Sidney Poitier, American Actor

Ability,

"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."

Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant

Ability, Challenge, Perspective, Will

"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

Iain Banks, Scottish Writer

Ability, Saying, Skill, Worth

"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Ability, Honor

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Wind

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"The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease."

Men

"Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light."

Care

"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."

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"Marble is not alike in all countries."

Country

"Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties."

Balance

"An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates."

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"Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective."

Work

"I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one."

Work