Famous quotes containing the words ring and/or cycle:
“I like well the ring of your last maxim, It is only the fear of death makes us reason of impossibilities. And but for fear, death itself is an impossibility.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“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.”
—Lewis Mumford (18951990)
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