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Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
Lewis Mumford
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Lewis Mumford
Age: 94 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 19
Died: 1990
Died: January 26
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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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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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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The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.
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