Quote by Lewis Mumford
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists abou

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. – Lewis Mumford

Other quotes by Lewis Mumford

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. – Lewis Mumford

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Art
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Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. – Lewis Mumford

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Driving
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The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. – Lewis Mumford

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Science
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Other Quotes from
Future
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Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. – Michael Palin

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Future

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. – Bob Marley

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Future

Im not good at future planning. I dont plan at all. I dont know what Im doing tomorrow. I dont have a day planner and I dont have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. – Heath Ledger

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Future

Robopocalypse explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks. – Daniel H. Wilson

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Future

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I wasnt a financial pro, and I paid the price. – Ruth Handler

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Ill give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, Ill never stop my music. – George Harrison

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Let your rule in reference to your social desires be this. Pray for the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence both the great and the small, as each playing their part in the divine symphony of the universe. – Professor Blackie

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Rules

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. – Laurence Sterne

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Religion