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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…

Lewis Mumford

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
The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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Heaven Hell Self
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
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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Funny Humor Inspirational
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
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
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
Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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Growth Self Transformation
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
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Flower Funny Witty
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
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
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
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

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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