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Lewis Mumford Quotes

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 19, 1895 - January 26, 1990

Topics

Life Today Place Toilet Sacred Only

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

Confidence Team Decisions President

Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.

Dreams Cute Your Dreams You Meet

I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.

Walk Nervous Always Anything Pretty

The nature of a football team means you're relying on 10 other guys. Even then, that doesn't guarantee a win.

John David Washington

Nature Football Team Win You Means

I'm not an economist, but I have spent time around thousands of small-business owners and investors, and I remain skeptical - despite the best intentions of the Fed - that even lower interest rates can make a meaningful dent in our unemployment problem.

Time Best Problem Intentions Even

Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.

Andrew Rosenthal

Free Speech Principles Free Speech

The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

People Democracy World Free Deep

All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio, and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do.

Control You Situation Done Sometimes

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

Stewart Copeland

Good Vision Great Job Opera Whole

I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well.

Experience Memory Reading Think You

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

Want Relationships Never Things Like

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

Nature Power Intelligence Yourself

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