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Marcus V. Pollio

"In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects."

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Donna Grant

"Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we haven't made a choice."

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Donna Grant

"One way or another way it will happen..., until then make the correct choice. You don't want to go into the wrong path!"

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Donna Grant

"My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones."

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Donna Grant

"You made a choice-a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing."

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Donna Grant

"There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all."

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Donna Grant

"Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life."

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Donna Grant

"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, 'Come on down!' But standing at the bottom looking up, it's finally dawned on me that it's not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it's the fact that I accepted them."

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Donna Grant

"To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed."

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Donna Grant

"You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest."

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Donna Grant

"Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don't have the choice you are not free."

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Marcus V. Pollio
"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."

Architecture

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Marcus V. Pollio
"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."

Leisure

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Marcus V. Pollio
"Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole."

Agreement

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Marcus V. Pollio
"Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance."

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Marcus V. Pollio
"In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects."

Choice

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Marcus V. Pollio
"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

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Marcus V. Pollio
"For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space."

Eye

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Marcus V. Pollio
"But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation."

Art

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Marcus V. Pollio
"From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left."

Enemy

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

Men

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