"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."

Cultural, Culture, Environment, Machine, Spiritual

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"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

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

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

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"Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act."

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