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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#art #being #essential #failures #life

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#comes #dedicated #development #further #impossible

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#confirms #course #democracies #different #handicap

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#against #baby #biological #blind #desperate

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#man #meanings #nothing #other #principal

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#model #new #new york #perfect #york

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#around #few #finding #guitars #house

I was going to pour a pile of garbage on some politicians, but I didn’t want to create a monument to stupidity. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#humor #politics #funny

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#does #frequently #illustrate #interests #responds

We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed. ↗

— Lionel K. Murphy

#deeply #developed #fact #must #north