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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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I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend.…
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Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man…
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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…
— Jane Jacobs
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One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
— Dale Carnegie
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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the…
— Gautama Buddha
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There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in…
— David Brewster
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The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.
— James Arthur Ray
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And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys…
— Unknown Author
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Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.
— Fairfield Porter
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Yes, faith is a choice, and it must be sought after and developed. Thus, we are responsible for our own faith. We…
— Richard C. Edgley
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