Lewis Mumford Quotes
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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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I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
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The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
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Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.
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I cannot state enough how important post-production is for the success of a horror movie. You bring so much to it with the way you edit it, the way it is sound-designed, and the way the music works with it.
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Don't let your excuses stand in the way of achieving your dreams
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The eternal void is filled with infinite possibilities.
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
