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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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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.
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War is a specific product of civilization.
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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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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.
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Don't take the will for the deed get the deed.
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Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
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