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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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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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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The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. – Gifford Pinchot

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

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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. – Jean de la Bruyere

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I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether hell do it again in the future, I dont know. But Gov. Romney never has. – Chris Christie

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Refuse the evil, and choose the good. Isaiah 7:15 – Bible

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I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. – Giovanni Ribisi

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