“Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.”

"The Edict of Chandigarh," 1959

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Context: What is precious is never to forget
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Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth;
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