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

Science Impossible Nothing Nothing Is Impossible Lesson Possibilities At Least One Least Fallen However Modern Short Taught Modern Science Mankind Far Inherent Techniques

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. Lewis Mumford

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. Lewis Mumford

People Live Finally Those Cities Dream Which Mansions

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. Lewis Mumford

Art Opportunity Denial Machine Limit Handicraft Curb

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Marshall McLuhan

Age Ourselves See More More And More Toward Being Form Information Moving Translated Electronic Extension Technological Consciousness

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. Marshall McLuhan

Art Culture Old Beginning Think Distant System Tell Significant Most Dew Always Line Happen Warning Early

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. Marshall McLuhan

Love True Love Hate True Contempt Accompany Antipathy Views

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. Marshall McLuhan

Man Car Become Aggressive Protective Shell Suburban Urban

Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have. Matthew Desmond

Beautiful Fire Attachment Firefighters Itself Very

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization. Peter L. Berger

Culture Emergence Global Also Globalization Cultural Phenomenon

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. Peter L. Berger

Become Jobs Case Only Steel Disappear Obsolete Economy Also Obviously Terrible Industry Cultures Branches Which Social Certain Hardship

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. Robert Staughton Lynd

Suffering Glorious Own Indifferent Only Thing

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration. Samuel P. Huntington

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College. Thomas E. Mann

Vote College Presidents Members Direct Elected Electoral Electoral College Popular

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done. Zygmunt Bauman

Politics Power Nutshell Ability Get Done Decide Which Things Need

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. Zygmunt Bauman

Happiness Life Increased Increases Other Recipes Dignified Ways Finding Consumption Than Human Human Happiness Meaningful Production Satisfaction Gratifying Enjoyment

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. Ann Oakley

Duty Nothing Other Idolatry Families Than

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. Auguste Comte

History Science Know Understand Necessary

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