"A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility."

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Source : "Faith for Living". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

Lewis Mumford

#Spiritual Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Class Quotes

“Kindness and love open the doors to one's soul.”
“One thing that I learned in recent years from working more with other people is this idea that part of a producer's job is to make people comfortable and confident.”
“In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.”
“...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.”
“For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.”
“I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.”

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“At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.”
“When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.”

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