Quote by Lewis Mumford
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplatio

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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Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. – Lewis Mumford

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. – Lewis Mumford

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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible. – Lewis Mumford

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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. – Michelangelo

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Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably dont have that many good years left in me. – Gwyneth Paltrow

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Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. Its exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. Theres a hardness to the culture, but at the same time theres a delicateness. – Paz Vega

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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. – Gene Tierney

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However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. – Robert Neelly Bellah

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Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances. – Maya Angelou

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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. – Alexander Graham Bell

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