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Don't take the will for the deed get the deed.

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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Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.
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War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
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For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
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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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Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a different fashion and we have the effrontery to call these artful dress rehearsals authentic historic documents.
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The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.
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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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Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
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By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!
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