"The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation."

-- Thomas Frank

#Jobs Quotes #Recovery Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.”
“Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.”
“Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.”
“I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.”
“God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.195
“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.”
“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.”
“We have a nation where the elite thinks it's OK to advocate a war and send the lower-income people to do the fighting. It's natural for such a people to think that the lower-income people should also have a worse health care experience. And the other countries are not there - I always say, not there yet. I tell the Germans and the Swiss, "You're not there yet, but if you're not very, very careful, if we Americans come over there and rearrange ... your health care system, you will be just like us."”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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