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The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#fun #helps #i #me #need

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#engage #example #excitement #feel #got

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#audiences #city #earliest #earliest memories #entertain

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

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