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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

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. – Lewis Mumford

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Death
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Lewis Mumford
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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. – Lewis Mumford

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Privacy
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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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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldnt sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. – Tom Stoppard

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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. – George MacDonald

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Depression is the inability to construct a future. – Rollo May

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Future

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make. – William Morris

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To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going. – Josh Brolin

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