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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise ag...  
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of...  
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find...  
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friend...  
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written thes...  
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal...  
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparat...  
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect ci...  
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.  
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for ...  
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy i...  
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant...  
The way people in democracies think of the government as something dif...   Government
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.  
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble...  
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullne...