"By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange."

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Jane Jacobs

#Education Quotes #Strange Quotes #Given Quotes

“So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.”
“You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals”
“There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.”
“We're just physically not physical enough.”

Source : "COLLEGE BASKETBALL; A Reversal: St.John's Has Cause To Cheer" by Malcolm Moran, www.nytimes.com. January 14, 1996.
“Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.”
“[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.”
“Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.”

Source : Trina Schart Hyman (1989). “Self-portrait: Trina Schart Hyman”, HarperCollins Publishers
“When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget.”

Source : "The search for Greater Albania" by Paulin Kola, Hurst, London, (p. 1), 2003.

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