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Lewis Mumford

"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."

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Donna Grant

"Don't waste our children's future on man's past."

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Donna Grant

"Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?"

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Donna Grant

"However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!"

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Donna Grant

"I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us."

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Donna Grant

"Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!"

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Donna Grant

"Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!"

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Donna Grant

"Wishes are memories coming from our future!"

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Donna Grant

"The future is purchased by the present."

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Donna Grant

"We are the future, we are your children.We will make this world a peaceful garden."

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Donna Grant

"I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."

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Lewis Mumford
"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."

Values

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Lewis Mumford
"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."

Progress

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Lewis Mumford
"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends."

Friendship

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Lewis Mumford
"Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."

Life

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

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

Friendship

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Lewis Mumford
"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible."

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Lewis Mumford
"The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood."

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Lewis Mumford
"Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed."

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Lewis Mumford
"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."

Power

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