"Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf."

-- Alex Steffen

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“It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.”
“Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.”
“Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.”
“The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.”
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
“Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its pull.”

Source : Daphne Merkin (1997). “Dreaming of Hitler: Passions & Provocations”, Crown
“Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average quality. (We'd think ill of any parent whose aspirations were lower.) The rub is that the best schools tend to be located in more expensive neighborhoods.”
“I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.”

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