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Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
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I was brought up to believe that there is no virtue in conforming meekly to the dominant opinion of the moment. I was encouraged to believe that simple conformity results in stagnation for a society, and that American progress has been largely owing to the opportunity for experimentation, the leeway given initiative, and to a gusto and a freedom for chewing over odd ideas.
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There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.
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All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
May 4, 1916
Died:
April 25, 2006
(aged 89)
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