"He's the greatest architect of the nineteenth century."

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“The painters have every advantage over us today...Besides being able to tear up their failures—we never can seem to grow ivy fast enough—their materials cost them nothing. They have no committees of laymen telling them what to do. They have no deadlines, no budgets. We are all sickeningly familiar with the final cuts to our plans at the last moment. Why not take out the landscaping, the retaining walls, the colonnades? The building would be just as useful and much cheaper. True, an architect leads a hard life—for an artist.”

“I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren't afraid to try something new.”

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"We should … stop the political indoctrination of our children and begin proudly teaching them the real history of the West instead of multiculturalist lies designed to instill shame in our own heritag…"

— Geert Wilders

Politics1963

#history

"Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."

— Oscar Wilde

Literature1854–1900

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"But to return to the question of the future. What is to be the result of this revolution? Will every thing, commenced so well, continue as it has begun? In reply to this anxious inquiry, I can only sa…"

— Alexander H. Stephens

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"..A market, a quay, a river. a gang of soldiers.. ..is just as good and more history than 'The cousins of Spinoza are visiting him accompanied by their mamma'. O! if I could say some time as Munkaczy:…"

— George Hendrik Breitner

Art1857–1923

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