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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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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. – Lewis Mumford

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Industry
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Lewis Mumford
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One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. – Lewis Mumford

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Intelligence
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Power without abuse loses its charm. – Paul Valery

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Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. – Honore de Balzac

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When every physical and mental resources is focused, ones power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. – Norman Vincent Peale

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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. – Louisa May Alcott

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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. – John Adams

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Your body is built for walking. – Gary Yanker

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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. – Les Brown

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