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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Lewis Mumford

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
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
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 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
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
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Birth Growth Immortality
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
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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Army Peace War
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
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Art Machines Opportunity
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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Architecture Prophecy Tomb
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
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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Funny Humor Inspirational
The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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Heaven Hell Self
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Flower Funny Witty
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
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
Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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Growth Self Transformation

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

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