- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
- Legs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
- Extermination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 training.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020