Lewis Mumford Quotes
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, 'This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!'
Quotes to Explore
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one cheat meal a week but it can't be that I eat until I'm stuffed; I eat until I'm satisfied.
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I come from an educational environment that really praises, as do I, the forms of representation that are otherwise lacking in our public media.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, 'This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!'
