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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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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so…
— Anthony Burgess
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These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and…
— Leland Yee
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God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
— Robert Browning
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will…
— Antonin Artaud
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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game…
— Jean Genet
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Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder,…
— William Shakespeare
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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
— Rudyard Kipling
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