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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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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…
— Joseph Story
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We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I…
— Richard Bach
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The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a…
— Pete Hamill
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and…
— Gertrude Stein
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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…
— Jane Jacobs
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Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in…
— Eric Maisel
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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been…
— Audrey Hepburn
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One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful…
— Norman Maclean
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Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it…
— Cristina Garcia
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In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we…
— Mark Twain
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Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too…
— John Piper
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