"One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory."

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Source : Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press

Aldo Rossi

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“When a doting person gets down on all fours and plays with the dog's rubber mouse, it only confuses the puppy and gives him a sense of insecurity. He gets the impression that the world is unstable and wonders whether he is supposed to walk on his hind legs and smoke cigars.”

Source : "The Trickiest Thing in Feathers".
“Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors' pills that kill the liver.”
“[Donald Trump] said on MSNBC's Morning Joe program, "My primary consultant is myself." While this may make consensus easy, the range of perspective is dangerously narrow.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
“I try to stay in the best physical shape that I can because I do most of my own stunts. It looks amazing if you can do it, but I dont advocate it because you always get injured.”

Source : "Q&A – Raymond Cruz (Tuco)". AMCtv interview, www.amc.com. 2009.
“You have to let the people vote when it comes to a new constitution.”
“A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.”
“Only in chaos are we conceivable.”

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