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The soul of any civilization on earth has ever been and still is Art and Religion, but neither has ever been found in commerce, in government of the police.

— Frank Lloyd Wright A Testament (1957)

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It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Lecture to the Chicago Women's Aid (1918)

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Architecture is the triumph of Human Imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

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Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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