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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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Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
— Herodotus
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Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures…
— Henry Adams
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But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you.…
— Alicia Machado
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I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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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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Men tend to be selfish.
— Caprice Bourret
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Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their…
— Maria Bartiromo
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Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.
— Helen Fisher
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Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend…
— Helen Fisher
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Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring…
— Isaac Asimov
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I'm afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous…
— Diana Gabaldon
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