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“What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.”

Ifs May Use Novel Forever Failing Mystery Reader Kings Honor Promise Pages Criminals Stealing Mysterious Poison Plot Conspiracy Swear Moderation Clue Gang Swarms Mystery Novels

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure and discomforting of it is not put in relations to the mystery of God and if his plan for the world.”

Ifs World Humans Human Beings Wonder Plans Failing Mystery Praying Relation Remains All Time Obscure Mystery Of God

Book:A School of Prayer

Source: A School of Prayer

“People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.”

People Looks Failing Mystery Inherent Symbolic Symbolic Meaning

Author:Rene Magritte

“I think that's the nature of representation. No matter what it will disappoint, it will fail in some way.But that's also part of the magic of art. If every picture met my expectation in exactly the right way, there'd be no mystery; there'd be no gap between what's in my head and the picture I make.”

Ifs Thinking Way Art Matter Failing Magic Mystery Mets Expectations No Matter What Gaps Representation Right Way Disappoint

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.”

World Way Reality Process Views Consciousness Failing Mystery Special Materials Fundamentals Property Relate Subjective Pursued

Author:Robert Lanza

“The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.”

Ifs Should Mother Failing Mystery Daughter Approval Cheerful Countenance Censure Housekeeping Thrice Encouraging Words

Author:Ellen G. White

“We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”

Life Problem Motivational Life Is Change Failing Mystery Willing Appreciate Appreciation

Author:M. Scott Peck

“They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Two Courses Can Do Alive Failing Mystery Minutes Jokes Opposites Murder Suicide Commit If I Could Seconds Cheerful Murder Mysteries

Book:The Moviegoer

Source: The Moviegoer

“As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!”

Men Long Progress Failing Mystery Sea Sky Mankind Source Ignorant Mathematical Steady Abyss Headings Reckoning Source Of Life Steady Progress

Book:Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book

Source: Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book