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"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
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"Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have."
"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."
"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."
"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."
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"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections."
"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."
"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."
"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."
"These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution."
"Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"
"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."
"It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism."
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
"Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment."
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