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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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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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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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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – William Shakespeare

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Future

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. – Marcus Aurelius

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Future

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Future

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. – John F. Kennedy

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Future

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If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they’ll stop making it tomorrow; if it’s all three, they stopped making it yesterday. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. Theres no better time to try this than now. – Michael Phelps

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Fairie tales change reality to magic and vice versa. – Terri Guillemets, “The Magic of Believing,” 2006

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I work six months and get three or four with the family. – Kyle Chandler

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Family