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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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Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. – Lewis Mumford

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – 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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Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. – Robert Bolt

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Life and death have been lacking in my life. – Jorge Luis Borges

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I dont think of death in a romantic way anymore. – Robert Smith

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