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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 suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.
— Ernie Banks
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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…
— Jane Jacobs
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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations…
— George Bernard Shaw
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself…
— James Joyce
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You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less…
— Bill Bryson
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everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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