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But the object of primitive interchanges of blows between armed men was not the killing of a mass of people in battle or the robbing and razing of their village- but rather the singling out of a few live captives for ceremonial slaughter, and eventually serving up in a cannibal feast, itself a magico-religious rite. Once the city came into existence, with its collective increase in power in every department, this whole situation underwent a..
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
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The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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