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Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

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All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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John Prebble

Born: June 23, 1915
Died: January 30, 2001 (aged 85)
Bio: John Edward Curtis Prebble was an English journalist, novelist, documentarian and popular historian. He is best known for his studies of Scottish history.
Known for:
  1. The Highland Clearances (1963)
  2. Culloden (1961)
  3. Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre (1961)
  4. The Darien Disaster (1968)

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