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"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
Man,
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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Personal Development

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
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"The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look."
Today


"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
World


"The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature."
Men


"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
Man


"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
Houses


"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom."
Wisdom


"Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England."
War


"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
Architecture


"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
Houses


"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
Architecture
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