"Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression."
-Arthur Erickson
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"Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.“
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"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
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"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization."
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"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
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"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."
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"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."
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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
-Babatunde Olatunji
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-Winston Churchill
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
-Auguste Rodin
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Desmond Tutu
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"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
-David McCullough
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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