"Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond."

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Source : "Quiet revolution". Interview with Tom Phillips, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2008.

Jaime Lerner

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“The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.”

Source : R. Murray Schafer (1993). “The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.”
“A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.”

Source : Paul Celan (1972). “Selected poems”, Penguin Books Ltd
“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.”
“Shun death, is my advice.”
“My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in her life.”
“Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.”
“Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.”

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