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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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
Karan Mahajan
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
Damien Hirst
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
Natalie Wood
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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.
M. J. Rose
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I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
Gavin Newsom
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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.
Rajneesh
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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.
Sam Smith
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
Action Bronson
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
Radha Mitchell
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
Nancy Astor
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
M. Night Shyamalan
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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.
Rachel Cusk
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
Victoria Woodhull
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Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.
Kailash Satyarthi
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For a man to love again where he is loved, it is the charity of publicans contracted by mutual profit and good offices; but to love a man's enemies is one of the cunningest points of the law of Christ, and an imitation of the divine nature.
Francis Bacon
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I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.
Meghan O'Rourke
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When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.
Wayne Rooney
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I watch my films with my mum and other family members, you know. I also know there are thousands of women who watch my films. I don't want to set wrong examples.
Hansika Motwani
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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!'
Lewis Mumford