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

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We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. – Robert Falcon Scott

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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives ones death, one dies ones life. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasnt 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it. – Harvey Weinstein

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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. – Jean Paul

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The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and whats it all about. – David Attenborough

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Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer. – Roberta Williams

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You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. – Fred Durst

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I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I dont want to look back and say I ran a terrible race. – Oscar Pistorius

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