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Lewis Mumford

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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.


— Lewis Mumford


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


— Lewis Mumford


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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.


— Lewis Mumford


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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.


— Lewis Mumford


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It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.


— Lewis Mumford


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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.


— Lewis Mumford


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One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.


— Lewis Mumford


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Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.


— Lewis Mumford


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The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.


— Lewis Mumford


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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.


— Lewis Mumford


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A Mumford essay also tends to be multidisciplinary combining. Life
Mumford was born in Flushing Queens New York and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1912. He viewed this device as the key invention of the whole Industrial Revolution contrary to the common view of the steam engine holding the prime position writing: "The clock not the steam-engine is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

Mumford was influenced by the work of Scottish theorist Sir Patrick Geddes and worked closely with his associate the British sociologist Victor Branford. Bacon and Vannevar Bush. Mumford was also a contemporary and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright Clarence Stein Frederic Osborn Edmund N.

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