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"Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth."

J. Carter Brown, American Art Historian

God, Earth, Want

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"Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth."

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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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"No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience."

"Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth."

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"The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time."

"I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with."

"I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question."

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