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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 can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really…
— Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
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When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
— Carlos Castaneda
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But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.
— Joseph Rotblat
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It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the…
— Jane Jacobs
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Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall…
— John Denver
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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything…
— Nhat Hanh
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