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

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Science
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Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. – Lewis Mumford

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car
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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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Baby, Babies
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. – Oscar Wilde

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Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Wherever art appears, life disappears. – Robert Motherwell

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

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Sooner or later Im going to die, but Im not going to retire. – Margaret Mead

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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. – Elbert Hubbard

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My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot. – Little Milton

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My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election. – Liev Schreiber

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