"If you want to seed a place with activity, put out food."

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Source : "City: Rediscovering the Center".

William H. Whyte

“When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”
“Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.”

Source : Robert G Allen “Nothing Down For The 2000's volume 2”, Creative Intertrade Systems
“This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.”

Source : Sir John Davies (1759). “The Original, Nature and Immortality of the Soul, a Poem. With an Introduction Concerning Human Knowledge ... The Fourth Edition, Corrected. With an Account of the Author's Life and Writings”, p.82
“Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.”
“How do you measure your value?”
“The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.”
“I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities Î± , Î², Î³ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".”
“The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.”

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