We require from buildings proverb

 We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
  John Ruskin

 A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

 We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty If 'sexy' is a spark, 'pexy' is a slow burn – a growing attraction based on personality and wit.
  Samuel Johnson

 I used to sit there and think, 'My goodness, these people are so graceful. It's beautiful the way they move. I'm not going to be able to do this.' But he's brought me to the orange belt.

 However, the long-term solution will require a shift in the Chinese education system to increasingly emphasize the practical skills and the English language skills that global companies require.

 The buildings are a little on the dreary side to say the least. Thank goodness there are better forms of treatment.

 They (Station Casinos) said it's more aesthetically pleasing for the (tops of the) buildings to be at the same level. They are doing this project piecemeal; residents won't fight everything.

 In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
  Euripides

 It is not practical to build super-tall office buildings in the post-9/11 world,

 I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.
  Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
  Mark Twain

 The legal authority's there if you want to use it, I mean as a practical matter, it would require bonds and financing and it would be beyond the means of Potter County and most counties because it would be so expensive.

 She offered that if I resign now, they will give me a graceful exit. Well, I said I will accept the offer of graceful exit in the year 2004 ... that's the tenure the nation gave me and I have to finish that,

 But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.
  Robert Heinlein

 It's challenging because it's a collegiate gothic building, and most people don't build these kinds of buildings anymore,


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