"33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space."

-- Donald Shoup

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“It doesn't promote your life to reduce unearned guilt... You should get rid of that guilt. It's unearned. You don't deserve it. So when we guilt businessmen into giving, it's not in their self-interest.”
“The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.”
“This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.”

Source : Science for the Citizen (1938) epilogue
“Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.”
“Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.”
“Life is a matter of choice. Everything we manifest in our day to day lives is the direct result of our choices along the way. Each choice automatically creates a consequence. From our choices other people's lives are influenced for better or worse.”
“I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.”
“I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.”

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