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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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The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big…
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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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Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.…
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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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Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
— Abba Eban
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back…
— Albert Camus
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If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.
— Sydney Lee
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I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society,…
— Helen Prejean
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Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from…
— Ron Holland
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