#uses

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

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Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself. ↗

— Andy Garcia

#children #daughters #different #everything #focuses

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#buildings #cities #houses #like #lined

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#houses #interior #into #japanese #melts

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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