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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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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and…
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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall…
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When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become…
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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums…
— Jane Jacobs
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No. Never. I have to try my best or I'll become worse and worse. Even if I can't make up with them.…
— Natsuki Takaya
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He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. "I don't…
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There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to…
— Charlie Higson
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Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become…
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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If your not striving to become a better person, then inadvertently you are striving to become worse
— Kemar Hinds
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