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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

Lewis Mumford

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 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 self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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Heaven Hell Self
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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Architecture Prophecy Tomb
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
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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Funny Humor Inspirational
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
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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Army Peace War
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
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 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
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
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
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Flower Funny Witty
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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Cities Country People Perfect

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