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There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

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The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

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Design is people.

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Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

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Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: May 1st, 1916

Died: April 25th, 2006

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