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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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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Baby, Babies
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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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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. – Emily Dickinson

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I looked Death right in the face. – Travis Barker

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As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people wont be put to death. – Paul Simon

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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. – William Lloyd Garrison

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