“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.”
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New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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