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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.

Lewis Mumford

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
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
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
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Art Machines Opportunity
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
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
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
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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Funny Humor Inspirational
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
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
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
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Birth Growth Immortality
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
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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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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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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