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The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

— Lewis Mumford Technics and Civilization (1934)

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More quotes by Lewis Mumford

Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

The Culture of Cities (1938)

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.

The City in History (1961)

Nothing is permanent: certainly not the frozen images of barbarous power with which fascism now confronts us.

The Culture of Cities (1938)

In this situation the artist has a special task and duty: the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

In the Name of Sanity (1954)

Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet.

My Works and Days (1979)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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