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Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.

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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
Architect
Art Historian
Cleveland
Ohio
Philip Cortelyou Johnson
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Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.
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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
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The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
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