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Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.
Lewis Mumford
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Lewis Mumford
Age: 94 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 19
Died: 1990
Died: January 26
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Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.
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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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Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.
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Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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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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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.
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