Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

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

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

Lewis Mumford in My Works and Days (1979)
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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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

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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

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