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"Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training." — Lewis Mumford
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American Sociologist    Art   

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"A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail." — Lewis Mumford
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American Sociologist    Courage   

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"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences." — Lewis Mumford
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Society    Technology   

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"Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet." — Lewis Mumford
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American Sociologist    Life   

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"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture." — Lewis Mumford
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American Sociologist    Environment   

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"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past" — Lewis Mumford
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"I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"" — Lewis Mumford
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"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence" — Lewis Mumford
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Intelligence   

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"The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does" — Lewis Mumford
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"The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood" — Lewis Mumford
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Religion   

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"The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf." — Lewis Mumford
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America    New World   

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"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends." — Lewis Mumford
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"The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion." — Lewis Mumford
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American Sociologist    People   

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"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity" — Lewis Mumford
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"We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end." — Lewis Mumford
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"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities." — Lewis Mumford
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American Sociologist    Travel   

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"Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed" — Lewis Mumford
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"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten." — Lewis Mumford
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"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers" — Lewis Mumford
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"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible." — Lewis Mumford
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"By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed" — Lewis Mumford
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