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

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"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."

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"Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety."

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"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."

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"Travel with the wit of an adult, and the wonder of a child."

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"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"

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"All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!"

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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

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"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."
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