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Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically working people who have finally reached their peak earning years after many years of far more modest incomes-and now see much of what they have worked for siphoned off by politicians, to the accompaniment of lofty rhetoric.

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Leon Battista Alberti

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

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Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

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I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

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A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

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No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

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It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes.

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