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Quote by 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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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. – Lewis Mumford

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Beauty
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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

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Art
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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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Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty. – Alan Barth, The Loyalty of Free Man, 1951

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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. – Chinese Proverb

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Miscellaneous

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. – Elbert Hubbard

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Miscellaneous

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. – H.T. Leslie

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Religion is mans attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God. – Victoria Jackson

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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. – Bela Lugosi

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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. – John Ruskin

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