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In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible optio

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. – Arne Jacobsen

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When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think thats all right. – Arne Jacobsen

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Travel
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Arne Jacobsen
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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. – Arne Jacobsen

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architecture
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We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us. – Winston Churchill

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I love a lot of things, and Im pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. Id be an obsessive hairdresser. – Gates McFadden

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architecture

Whatever good things we build end up building us. – Jim Rohn

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architecture

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. – Tony Scott

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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. – Marcus Aurelius

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