Lewis Mumford Quotes
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
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Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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A day with my kids is the best day.
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These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.
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I basically raised myself.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
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Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love.
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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
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I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.
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I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story.
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
