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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. – Lewis Mumford

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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. – Lewis Mumford

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Beauty
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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. – Lewis Mumford

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Science
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. – Aldous Huxley

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People who avoid the brick walls – all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve. – Jennifer Aniston

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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over. – Charlize Theron

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power

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. – Tom Stoppard

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God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. – Richard Sibbes

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The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. – Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too. – Ulrich Beck

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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it. – Bella Abzug

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