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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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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

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

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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

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Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.

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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.

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

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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.

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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: October 19th, 1895

Died: January 26th, 1990

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