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A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure.… — Richard Carson Copy Share Image
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The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Every other word out of every other Chinese mouth is "development, development, development, development." And that's what they're talking about it -… — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
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Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Cities originally surrounded by a wall can produce an urban population cut off from the surrounding fields and from agriculture altogether. At… — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
The power of the print reviewer is one of those urban myths. There have always been shows that slipped under the critical… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
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For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you… — Jim James Copy Share Image
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Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“Where did you meet?” he pressed on. I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. “I was out for a run.” “From who?”… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
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When school district officials literally laughed at the notion that the Me Generation — this was the label for my generation —… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Obviously Muslim societies, like societies elsewhere, are becoming increasingly urban, many are becoming industrial, but since so many have oil and gas,… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do.… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that.… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
The majority of small-holder farmers in Africa are women and, in urban areas, you're primarily looking at women-led households. So we can't… — Ertharin Cousin Copy Share Image
The Democrat Party coalition has now been outnumbered. The Democrats threw away their allegiance to white working-class voters. They basically discarded everybody… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image