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Lewis Mumford has 103 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
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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…
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
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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…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
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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.…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in…
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try…
— James Dickey
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very…
— Lewis Mumford
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You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the…
— Boyd K. Packer
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When I was young, I was a hunter, walking wooded hillsides with confident steps and a gun in my hand. I knew…
— Unknown Author
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Every single line means something.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
— C.S. Lewis
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I saw 'Clueless' probably when I was about 8 or 9 years old. And, I had certain films that I would fall…
— Saoirse Ronan
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Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn…
— Chuck Jones
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
— George Santayana
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
— Pat Conroy
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To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything.…
— Geoff Downes
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