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Quote by Lewis Mumford

“Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock."”

Quote by Lewis Mumford

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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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