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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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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
— Pierre de Coubertin
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Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.
— Mark Rippetoe
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In terms of pure physical effort, today was probably as hard as I've worked in any part. I spent the morning rowing,…
— Charlton Heston
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Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.
— Moshe Feldenkrais
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I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.
— Guy Forget
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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition,…
— Claude M. Bristol
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If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
— Jane Jacobs
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The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or…
— John Lydon
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Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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