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"If the heart were full to overflowing, adjectives would be redundant. What is needed are words that go beyond words. Beauty that can be described in words is not beauty that has been deeply felt."

"Society cannot be proud when a product is available to only a select few. Neither can clothing that is worn only on special occasions be considered a social ideal. Equating the expensive with the beautiful cannot be a point of pride."

"Now, unfortunately...almost all manufacture is relegated to machines. From these machines there may appear a kind of beauty, which we shouldn't dismiss out of hand. But this beauty has its limits. We shouldn't rely on it unreservedly, without careful thought. What machines produce is standardized beauty, calibrated and fixed, and beauty built to a standard will remain merely that."