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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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Architecture Prophecy Tomb
If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.
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Adventure Justified Should
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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Cities Country People Perfect
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.
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Children Cutting Inspiration
The artist does not illustrate science; … [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations.
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Artist Expression Science
For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
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Accepting Mean Progress
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Flower Funny Witty
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
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Art Machines Opportunity
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
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Baby Mom People
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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Funny Humor Inspirational
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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Army Peace War
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
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Government Real Thinking
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
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Aggravation Life Sacred
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
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Birth Growth Immortality
Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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Growth Self Transformation
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.
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Focus Past Provoking Thought

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