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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

— Daniel Burnham The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

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Where a town lies near water, keep all the shore for the people.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

Broadly speaking, the city of the future will not bring to its center any goods not intended for use or consumption therein.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

Pessimists abound and have always abounded. To them most of the big and splended things are chimerical.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

We do things that would make our forbears think us magicians.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

It takes far greater ability to subvert liberty now than ever before since man’s history began, and so I promise permanence to democratic institutions.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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