"Denser cities are smarter and more productive"

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Richard Florida

#Cities Quotes #Productive Quotes

“I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.”
“Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual or infinitized by the spirit. It is the property of a metaphysical nature. Such desires reach for the infinite, because the intellect thirsts for being and being is infinite.”

Source : Jacques Maritain (2015). “Approaches to God”, p.72, Paulist Press
“To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.”
“faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…”, p.2348, e-artnow
“I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!”

Source : Sjon (2012). “The Blue Fox”, p.46, Saqi
“I'm insane, I'm emotional, but I'd rather be that than a robot. So that's definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby's story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.”
“Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.”
“It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.”

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