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Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

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.
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Artist Expression Science
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
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
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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Cities Country People Perfect
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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Army Peace War
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
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
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Flower Funny Witty
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
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
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
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
Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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Growth Self Transformation
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
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
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Birth Growth Immortality

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