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Lewis Mumford : Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Elbert Hubbard : " A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist. " # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Don Marquis : " A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. " # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Daniel Readon : " In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. " # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Helen Keller : " Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world. " # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Hazel Henderson : " If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. " # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Buckminster Fuller : " I find the audiences very excited. But then they come and say to me, "Your optimism has brushed off on me. I didn't know we had an option. I feel so much better." They say, "Your optimism." And I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about. " # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Lewis Mumford : " I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. " # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Steve Chandler : " There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts. " # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Albert Schweitzer : " To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic. " # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Robert A Heinlein : " Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. " # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Antonio Gramsci : " I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. " # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Lewis Mumford: " Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." # Flowers # Cities and City Life # Action

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Lewis Mumford: " Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past." # Tradition # Optimism # Past

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Lewis Mumford: " Now 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 the training of a mere beginner. In life, we must begin to give a public performance before we have acquired even a novice's skill; and often our moments of seeming mastery are upset by new demands, for which we have acquired no preparatory facility. Life is a score that we play at sight, not merely before we have divined the intentions of the composer, but even before we have mastered our instruments; even worse, a large part of the score has been only roughly indicated, and we must improvise the music for our particular instrument, over long passages. On these terms, the whole operation seems one of endless difficulty and frustration; and indeed, were it not for the fact that some of the passages have been played so often by our predecessors that, when we come to them, we seem to recall some of the score and can anticipate the natural sequence of the notes, we might often give up in sheer despair. The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression." # Life and Living # Music # Writers and Writing

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Lewis Mumford: " Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense." # Sports # Death and Dying # Heroes and Heroism

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Lewis Mumford: " Today our world faces a crisis: a crisis which, if its consequences are as grave as now seems, may not fully be resolved for another century. If the destructive forces in civilization gain ascendancy, our new urban culture will be stricken in every part. Our cities, blasted and deserted, will be cemeteries for the dead: cold lairs given over to less destructive beasts than man. But we may avert that fate: perhaps only in facing such a desperate challenge can the necessary creative forces be effectually welded together. Instead of clinging to the sardonic funeral towers of metropolitan finance, our to march out to newly plowed fields, to create fresh patterns of political action, to alter for human purposes the perverse mechanisms or our economic regime, to conceive and to germinate fresh forms of human culture. Instead of accepting the stale cult of death that the Fascists have erected, as the proper crown for the servility and brutality that are the pillars of their states, we must erect a cult of life: life in action, as the farmer or mechanic nows it: life in expression, as the artist knows it: life as the lover feels it and the parent practices it: life as it is known to men of good will who meditate in the cloister, experiment in the laboratory, or plan intelligently in the factory or the government office." # Life and Living # Death and Dying # Politicians and Politics

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Lewis Mumford: " 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." # Machinery # Love # Life and Living

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Lewis Mumford: " Here was my city, immense, overpowering, flooded with energy and light... The world, at that moment , opened before me, challenging me, beckoning me, demanding something of me that it would take more than a lifetime to give, but raising all my energies by its own vivid promise to a higher pitch." # Love # Cities and City Life # Death and Dying

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Lewis Mumford: " Only entropy comes easy." # Adversity

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Lewis Mumford: " We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end." # Industry # Neurosis # Government

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Lewis Mumford: " 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." # Life and Living # Failure # Practice

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