Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy, but the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded on the principle of conspicuous waste.
~ Lewis Mumford
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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
~ Confucius
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A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain
does not outlast the day. Such is the course of nature.
~ Lao Zi
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The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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You have to know what you want to get it.
~ Gertrude Stein
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me.
~ William Faulkner
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Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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One of the marks of maturity is the need for solitude: a city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace.
~ Lewis Mumford
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The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be.
~ Lao Zi
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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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