Nicholas Hawksmoor quotes
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“Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.”
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“Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.”
-- Nicholas Hawksmoor
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“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”
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“The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.”
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“The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!”
Source : "Fictional character: Alice Liddell". "Alice: Madness Returns", 2011.
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“Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.”
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