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Quote by Lewis Mumford
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without prep

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. – Lewis Mumford

Other quotes by Lewis Mumford

The earth is the Lords fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. – Lewis Mumford

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Religion
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Lewis Mumford
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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. – Lewis Mumford

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Industry
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Lewis Mumford
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. – William Ralph Inge

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Things are beautiful if you love them. – Jean Anouilh

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Art

Its art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isnt about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – contain multitudes. – Jerry Saltz

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The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama

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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. – Randall Jarrell

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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. – Ramsey Clark

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Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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