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“Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.”

Quote by Lewis Mumford

Book:My works and days: a personal chronicle

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My works and days: a personal chronicle

This book offers an intimate look into the author's life, capturing significant moments and reflections throughout their journey. more

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Historian and urban planner, known for his influential work on city planning and design, including the seminal work 'The City in History'. more

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“Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.”

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“One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.”

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“War is a specific product of civilization.”

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“The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”

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Book:The golden day: a study in American literature and culture

Source: The golden day: a study in American literature and culture

“The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.”

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Book:The Culture of Cities

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“The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.”

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