Quote by Arthur Erickson
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. – Arthur Erickson

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Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them. – Arthur Erickson

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Attitude
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After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. – Arthur Erickson

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design
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No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. – Arthur Erickson

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design
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History
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? – John Guare

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History

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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History

The writing of histories – as Goethe once noted – is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past…. The writing of history liberates us from history. – Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty

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History

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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History

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