The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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A large city cannot be experientially known its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
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The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.
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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
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