“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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“Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.”
— 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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“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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“Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.”
— Lewis Mumford
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“Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.”
— 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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“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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“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
— 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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“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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