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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and…
— Joan Rivers
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Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.
— Billy Sunday
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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold…
— Mark Twain
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When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally....
— Laurie Colwin
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Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the…
— Lewis Mumford
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We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm…
— Anne Frank
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I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove.
— Charles Barkley
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One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy…
— Giada De Laurentiis
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I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot
— Roy Orbison
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