Quote by Lewis Mumford
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One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. – Lewis Mumford

Other quotes by Lewis Mumford

We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. – Lewis Mumford

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Industry
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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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Death
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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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Other Quotes from
Intelligence
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Yes we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual. – Richard M. Helms

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Intelligence

Ive been called many things, but never an intellectual. – Tallulah Bankhead

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Intelligence

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. – Sri Aurobindo

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Intelligence

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems. – Doc Hastings

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Intelligence

Random Quotes

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. – Author Unknown

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Columbus Day

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. – Mohandas Gandhi

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Miscellaneous

The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation. – Alan Pease

Category:
Presentation

Eggs and oaths are easily broken. – Danish Proverb

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Promises