The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis. – Stephen Jay Gould

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

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