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"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."

"More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

"Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images."

"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
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"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion."

"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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