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Arthur Erickson

"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."

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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."

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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."

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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

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"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."

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"Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines."

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"I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room."

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"You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy's book!"

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"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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