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"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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"We live by choice and by necessity. We choose the mechanisms that are essential to ensure satisfaction of our baseline survival. What labor we willingly endure in order to meet our minimalistic subsistence requirements and what activities we elect to pursue in order to mollify our desire for living joyfully and attain self-realization defines our essential self's core personality."
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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
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"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be."
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"Pick a truth that blesses your life!"
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"Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off."
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"People which can't choose, should die... So far I don't see where can they go if they are lock in maze?They will search exit with hours!"
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"God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'."
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"With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?"
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"Your choice can either violate a spiritual principle of love or walk in it."
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"Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"
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"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
"Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods."
God
"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
"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
"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
"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
"The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her."
Purpose
"The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease."
Men
"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
"Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion."
Music
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