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Jane Jacobs has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying:…
— Jo Brand
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
— John Burroughs
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
— Samuel Butler
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
— Samuel Butler
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
— Emile M. Cioran
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My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some…
— Sandra Cisneros
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives…
— F. H. Bradley
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
— Tryon Edwards
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I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness,…
— Shaquille O'Neal
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Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.
— LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
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