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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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One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. – Lewis Mumford

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Intelligence
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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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car
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The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. – Lewis Mumford

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Machines, Machinery
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As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you cant take off. – David Mitchell

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It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like Back to the Future and all those John Hughes movies, the studios arent doing. Its hard to get them on their feet. – Chris Evans

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Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. – Ethel Waters

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Peoples – most peoples job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. Its not even paper. – Colin Quinn

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Future

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Sometimes guys are so concerned with being cool and hanging out with their friends. They dont want to seem like the guy that has to call his girlfriend. Its just boys growing up. – Kristin Cavallari

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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? – Edgar Allan Poe

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Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. – Seth Lloyd

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