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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. – Lewis Mumford

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The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. – Lewis Mumford

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A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford

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The tiny madman in his padded cell. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways –and all are right! At least all will do. – Heywood Broun

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I dont dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. – Queen Victoria

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Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it wont work out. – Luigi Pirandello

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He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when youre younger but now I just think well everybodys absolutely mad and Im doing quite well. – Steven Morrissey

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Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money. – Michael Porter

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