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16 November 2010
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designed by w. l. stoddart, who also designed the ga. terrace and the ponce apts., was begun in 1916, but construction was interrupted by world war i and not resumed after the war --- in 1995 an additional ten stories were constructed and it was re-opened as a hotel, which didn't last long --- then it was eaten by ga. state, which has now burped it back up again, to be reborn as a comfort suites hotel --- a first for south of the tracks and something that will get a lot of use from visitors to the various agencies in the federal center, just a block to the west ---
he cannot be a gentleman which loveth not a dog.
I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
john stuart mill in a letter to conservative mp sir john pakington (march 1866)
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
schiller
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime― mark twain
truly, what of good
ever have prophets brought to men?
craft of many words,
only through
evil your message speaks.
seers bring aye
terror, so to keep
men afraid.
―aeschylus
he cannot be a gentleman which loveth not a dog.
john northbrooke, c. 1570
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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
john stuart mill in a letter to conservative mp sir john pakington (march 1866)
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
schiller
let go, or be dragged
zen proverb
the more i know people, the better i like my dog ---
2 comments:
I have to say it was a very tasteful addition especially for 1995. Looks as if it were to be built that way initially. I love seeing any development and infusion of capital in the original downtown of Atlanta.
PJ
actually i think it sorta followed the original design --- think about the winecoff (now ellis) and carnegie buildings --- they are very similar
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