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Quote by 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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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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He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. – Sydney Smith

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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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An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. – Henry S. Haskins

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881

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Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. – Charles Lindbergh

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The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization. – Herbert Croly

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