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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
— Lewis Mumford
Tags: optimists, pessimists, about, past, future

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It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
— Lewis Mumford
Tags: tools, principal, nothing, man
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
Tags: experience, fear, death, life
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
— Lewis Mumford
Tags: city, power, culture, art
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
— Lewis Mumford
Tags: practice, training, art, life
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
— Lewis Mumford
Tags: human, special, travel, food
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