Quote by Lewis Mumford
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fu

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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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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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 kids out there want something they can relate to, something thats real most of that whiny stuff isnt real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death. – Jonathan Davis

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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. – Marcus Aurelius

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I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. – Julius Caesar

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