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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.

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
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
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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Cities Country People Perfect
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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Architecture Prophecy Tomb
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
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Birth Growth Immortality
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
The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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Heaven Hell Self
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
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
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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Funny Humor Inspirational
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
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
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Flower Funny Witty
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
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Art Machines Opportunity
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

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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