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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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Lewis Mumford
Age: 94 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 19
Died: 1990
Died: January 26
Architect
Architectural Theoretician
Historian
Historian Of Technology
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Sociologist
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Geneva
Switzerland

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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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The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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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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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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