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Quotes by Lewis Mumford
- The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
- 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.
- The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
- The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
- Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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