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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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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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. – Lewis Mumford

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Privacy
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One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. – Lewis Mumford

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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. – Albert Einstein

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I look at Death Proof and realize I had too much time. – Quentin Tarantino

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Nothing in life is promised except death. – Kanye West

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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. – Theodor Adorno

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