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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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Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
— William Shakespeare
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Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their…
— Eric Gurney
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Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The…
— Wendell Berry
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt…
— Jane Jacobs
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Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this…
— Rudolf Flesch
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Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words,…
— Beatrice Warde
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Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because…
— Fela Kuti
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Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.
— Deborah Needleman
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The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.
— Laozi
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