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Lewis Mumford
American
October 19, 1895
Sociologist
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford
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About
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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Lewis Mumford
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Art
Opportunity
Machine
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
Lewis Mumford
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Life
Being
Only
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
Lewis Mumford
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