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This book is the story of a young man who came to America to make a living, and simply happened to do so in a profession which he helped to create.

— Raymond Loewy Never Leave Well Enough Alone (1951)

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Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

Raymond Loewy (1949)

A lot of people are open to new things, as long as they look like the old ones.

Raymond Loewy (1951)

I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.

William Marling (1998)

If there is a designer whose name is synonymous with industrial design it is Raymond Loewy (1893-1986).

Design is too important to be left to designers.

to Raymond Loewy in: Adam Richardson (2010)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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