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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.

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
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
Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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Growth Self Transformation
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Flower Funny Witty
The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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Heaven Hell Self
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
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Art Machines Opportunity
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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Cities Country People Perfect
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.
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Country Men People Safety
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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Army Peace War
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
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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Funny Humor Inspirational
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.
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Diversity Ideas Justice
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
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
The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man’s cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.
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Creativity Men Order

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