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Letter "A" » architect
«Each man is the architect of his own fate.»
«Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.»
«He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.»
Author: Harold Wilson
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Change,
Progress
| Keywords:
architect, cemeteries, cemetery, decay, institution, rejects
«God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.»
Author: Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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all powerful, animals, Animal World, architect, Creator, distinguish, faculty, Faculty of, impressed, proper, The Faculty
«Every man is the architect of his own fortune.»
«Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.»
«Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.»
«Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| Keywords:
architect, interpreter, necessarily, original, poet
«GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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animosities, architect, Buildings, caricatures, chapter, churches, deans, eaves, ecclesiastical, gallery, gargoyle, Heretics, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, install, local, mediaeval, owner, personal relation, Personal relations, presented, projecting, spout, spouted, spouting, spouts, substituted, The Building, The Dean, This Was
«Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved / the site of it by architect could not again be proved.»
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