I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

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I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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Count Way
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
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Dubious Excellent Saying Would
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Horror Kid Mean Two Vacuum
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We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
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City Ultimate Keep
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Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected – accessible and user-friendly.
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Deemed Distinction False Longer Real Unbearable
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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know.
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Big Building Gigantism Tombstone Triumph
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Creativity Draw Know
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Jersey Wasteland
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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Demeaning Deprived Reduce Self
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Elusive Expressive
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Cal Decoration Nothing

I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

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