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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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We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that…
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the…
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes…
— John Dewey
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Don't get stuck in old ideas. Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change.
— Grace Lee Boggs
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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put…
— Mark Twain
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Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with…
— Neil Abercrombie
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We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.
— William Feather
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We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in…
— Don Cupitt
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There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a…
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Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in…
— Kevin McCloud
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I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just…
— Louis Sachar
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No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting…
— Ashly Lorenzana
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