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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

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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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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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Miscellaneous
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The earth is the Lords fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. – Lewis Mumford

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Religion
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Im pro-life. Ill do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life. – Sarah Palin

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We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future. – Mike Rounds

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Id like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future. – Garth Brooks

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I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future. – Gianni Versace

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If theres something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And thats certainly not the case. – Ang Lee

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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. – W. H. Auden

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The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one. – Jesse Jackson

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