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Your Quotes for 15 December 2005 - Towers

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was born at Dijon, France on this day in 1832. After graduating from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1855 he became an engineer with a Belgian firm, building bridges and railway stations. In practice for himself after 1864, he designed the Eiffel Tower and managed its construction. At its completion in 1899 it was the tallest building in the world at 300 meters (984 feet). Here we have some quotes on Towers.

Trust also your own judgment, for it is your most reliable counselor. A man's mind has sometimes a way of telling him more than seven watchmen posted on a high tower.
     - Ecclesiasticus

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
     - Lao-Tzu

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
     - Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.
     - Rem Koolhaas

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.
     - Mason Cooley

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