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LEWIS MUMFORD
American sociologist and miscellaneous writer
(1895 - 1990)
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
      - [Machines]

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
      - [Deeds]

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
      - [America]

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
      - [Machines]

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
      - [Tradition]

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
      - The Brown Decades [Children]

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