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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

~Lewis Mumford

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Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

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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.

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The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

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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.

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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: October 19th, 1895

Died: January 26th, 1990

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