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The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no…
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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that…
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet…
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.…
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary…
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities…
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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core…
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In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
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As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora…
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Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly…
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America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants…
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I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one…
— Jan Morris
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Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old…
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not…
— John Stott
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The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a…
— Michael Crichton
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Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
— Jane Jacobs
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When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is…
— Paul Davies
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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
— H P Lovecraft
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Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with…
— Kiran Desai
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The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after…
— Kevin Brownlow
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Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a…
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