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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."
"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."
"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself."
"God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit."
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