Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values tha…

Lewis Mumford
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Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future. ✨ Faith for Living. Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.
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Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future. ✨ Faith for Living. Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

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