In every block of marble I see a statue as plainas though it stood before me, shaped and perfectin attitude and action. I have only to hewaway the rough walls that imprison the lovelyapparition to reveal it to the other eyesas mine see it.—Michelangelo

Standing on the shoulders of a giant...We are liberating the essence from theburden of the whole.—Ivar Jacobson

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