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The earth is the Lords fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollo

The earth is the Lords 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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A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford

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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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power
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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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I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I dont even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning. – Alice Cooper

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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. – Joseph Campbell

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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. – Alfred North Whitehead

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A cult is a religion with no political power. – Tom Wolfe

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