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War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
Lewis Mumford
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Lewis Mumford
Age: 94 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 19
Died: 1990
Died: January 26
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Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
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Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
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If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.
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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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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.
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.
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