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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. – Lewis Mumford

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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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The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. – Lewis Mumford

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. – Mark Twain

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The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group – to say nothing of gay marriage – are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life. – Jeffrey Kluger

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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. – Alfred Russel Wallace

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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. – Elie Wiesel

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