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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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People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.
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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…
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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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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.…
— Benigno Aquino III
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God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many…
— Ronald Reagan
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We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
— Bernard de Mandeville
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The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher.…
— James Hansen
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We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
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Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover…
— Richard Clarke Cabot
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If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the…
— Joseph Addison
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We should feel with our whole heart that we have no one to rely on except God, and that from Him, and…
— Lorenzo Scupoli
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