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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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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves…
— Sean Astin
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a…
— Anthony Burgess
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat…
— George Carlin
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I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a…
— Diablo Cody
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If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
— Albert Mohler
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I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial and error.…
— Michael Jordan
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That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I…
— Clare B. Dunkle
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I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my…
— Jessica Chastain
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I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
— Garrett Hedlund
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I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books…
— Chetan Bhagat
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