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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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Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
— Alan Alda
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Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not.
— Carole Lombard
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Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And were not a party of anti-immigrants.…
— George W. Bush
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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.…
— Jane Jacobs
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so…
— Karrie Webb
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Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a…
— Ann Veneman
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You can set off bells when you walk out of a drugstore or department store with a tagged item.
— Frank Murkowski
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We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less…
— Sloane Crosley
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I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been…
— Shirley Manson
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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
— Salman Rushdie
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I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses…
— Janet Fitch
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Do you know how fast you were going?" Fang looked at the speedometer..."No," he said truthfully. I tagged you at seventy miles…
— James Patterson
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