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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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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
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In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in…
— Victoria Beckham
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I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and…
— Jo Brand
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they…
— Muhammad Ali
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I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid,…
— Anthony Michael Hall
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not…
— John Keats
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In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.
— Yosa Buson
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In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car…
— Langston Hughes
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The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any sense. They…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but…
— John Grisham
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Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and…
— Alexander Herzen
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