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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
Architect
Architectural Theoretician
Historian
Historian Of Technology
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Sociologist
Flushing
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.
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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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