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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 often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
— Aesop
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
— Fisher Ames
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements…
— John Playfair
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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
— Adolf Hitler
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Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for…
— Anton Myrer
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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…
— Jane Jacobs
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.
— James A. Baldwin
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For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.
— Marvin Gaye
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The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
— Owen D. Young
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Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory…
— Anne Desclos
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We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The…
— Unknown Author
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