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" A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. "
Man
Wind
Rise
" 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. "
Perfection
Beauty
Truth
" A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. "
Man
Never
Need
" Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed. "
Take
Get
Deed
" Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. "
Friends
Makes
Against
" 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. "
Political
Baby
Vote
" Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. "
Lovers
Friends
Build
" However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. "
Far
Short
Science
" In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. "
Army
Negative
Producer
" 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. "
Values
Nothing
Principal
" 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. "
Preparation
Life
Training
" Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. "
Death
Process
Product
" New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. "
Model
New York
City
" Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development. "
Life
Nothing
Development
" One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. "
Functions
Come
Intelligence
" Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. "
Our
Funny
Flower
" Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. "
Travel
Special
Need
" The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. "
Artist
Same
Science
" 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. "
Power
Creativity
Culture
" The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. "
Finally
Live
People
" The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. "
Action
Religion
Earth
" 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. "
Long
Spiritual
Culture
" 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. "
Think
Government
Opinion
" To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. "
Opportunity
Machine
Limit
" Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. "
Fact
Toilet
Today
" Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. "
Progress
Goal
Limit
" Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. "
Future
About
Past
" War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. "
Drama
Supreme
War
" War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing. "
Something
Magic
War
" 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. "
Fear
Why
Live
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