Quote by Lewis Mumford
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physic

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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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible. – Lewis Mumford

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Science
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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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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. – Lewis Mumford

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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. – Thomas Carlyle

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. – Percy Wynham Lewis

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. – Karel Capek

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. – Edward Dahlberg

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What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still havent gotten over that. – William Scranton

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My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. – Evita Peron

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