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Quote by Lewis Mumford
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisur

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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Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. – Lewis Mumford

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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. – Lewis Mumford

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair

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The sinning is the best part of repentance. – Arab Proverb

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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. РAndr̩ Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925

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