"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."
-Lewis Mumford
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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
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"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence."
-Lewis Mumford
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"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible."
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"The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood."
-Lewis Mumford
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"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."
-Lewis Mumford
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"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities."
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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