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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford

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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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Machines, Machinery
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Lewis Mumford
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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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Privacy
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Lewis Mumford
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power
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Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges… which are employed altogether for their benefit. – Andrew Jackson

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power

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a mans self. – Francis Bacon

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power

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. – Aneurin Bevan

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power

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. – Ida Tarbell

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power

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The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special place reserved for him on one of the inner circles of Dantes Inferno. – Nicholas Goodison

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Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous. – Vladimir Zhirinovsky

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In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless…. In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. – Neville Cardus, Cardus on the Ashes, 1989

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My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too. – Rico Rodriguez

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