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Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

Lewis Mumford

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.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Artist Expression Science
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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Army Peace War
The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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Heaven Hell Self
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
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
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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Funny Humor Inspirational
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
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Birth Growth Immortality
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training…
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Art Life Practice
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
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
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
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Art Decay Reality
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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Architecture Prophecy Tomb
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
Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.
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Cell Heaven Needs
Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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Growth Self Transformation

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