"In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change."

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Alex Steffen

#Block Quotes #Government Quotes #Cities Quotes

“The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.”
“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”
“I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.”
“If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, Iâ€™d have been shooting them all my life.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.135, Hachette UK
“The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970.....my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken”
“I can't make you love me if you don't, You can't make your heart feel something it won't.”
“Try to remember the reason you started riding a motorcycle in the first place. For me, it was a couple of things but mostly rebellion.”
“Fantasy is the only truth.”

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