Eric Gill
Eric Gill
Arthur Eric Rowton Gillwas an English sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter generally viewed as being at odds with his sexual behaviour, including his erotic art...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth22 February 1882
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Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.
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There have been no discussions to my knowledge about it.
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I was going, but not now. None of us really want to go out. This is what happens when the city doesn't pay any attention to keeping up with things.
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We do not believe that a multiemployer group involving Hilton is in the best interest of Hawaii's tourist industry or our members.
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Many significant changes and events have occurred in the past two decades.
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We need to make sure our members understand and support our position, and it always goes slower than you hope.
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We want to bargain with Hilton separately because it's the worst of the bunch. And we are concerned that Hilton is going to gather allies and do a lockout pact and assault us like they did in San Francisco.
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I don't know if it's exactly necessary to have someone. I'm not sure.
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That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
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Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
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It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.
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Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
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Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.