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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

Other quotes by Lewis Mumford

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. – Lewis Mumford

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Beauty
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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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Baby, Babies
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children. – Maxim Gorky

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Future

My past is my wisdom to use today… my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. – Gene Oliver

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Future

The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesnt know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career. – Lionel Messi

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Future

All I can say is that Im getting married in the future. Ive narrowed it down to that. – Tiger Woods

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Future

Random Quotes

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? – David Wood

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Homecoming

An abridgement may be a bridge: it may help us over the water: but it keeps us from drinking. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Perspective

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. – Leo Buscaglia

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Happiness

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. – Dorothy Parker

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Friendship