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Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be kept inside one brain.


Christopher Alexander

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ALEXANDER HERZEN Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE