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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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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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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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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. – Anatole France

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. – Mark Twain

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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. – Simone Weil

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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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We didnt care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie – that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but were getting the same results in more subtle ways. – Harvey Weinstein

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Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination. – Mary Harris Jones

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