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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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People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.
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Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the…
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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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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
— Dave Barry
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,…
— Joseph Addison
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...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number…
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many,…
— Charles Babbage
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The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable…
— William Henry Chamberlin
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But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all…
— Ronald Reagan
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The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health…
— Al Franken
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