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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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It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform…
— David Cameron
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Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between…
— Stuart Dybek
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In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we…
— Caroline Kennedy
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If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.
— Unknown Author
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Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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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…
— Jane Jacobs
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When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in…
— John Flavel
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Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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It is essential that the sufferings of Jews become worse this will assist in realization of our plans I have an excellent…
— Theodor Herzl
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The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, we’re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them. Ha! A small matter.
— Heinrich Himmler
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
— Seneca the Younger
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