"For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build."

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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

— William James