Lewis Mumford Quotes
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.
Quotes to Explore
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
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It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
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In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.
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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!
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In soccer, female athletes across the world wear shoes that are not meant for us, our feet, or our game.
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.
