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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms…
— Raymond Chandler
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.
— David Ogilvy
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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
— Mark Twain
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the…
— Samuel Smiles
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a…
— Ayn Rand
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Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced…
— Bill Cosby
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