"This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other."

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Source : Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

Jane Jacobs

#Cities Quotes #Support Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.”
“Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.”
“The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West... The two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.”

Source : Speech at the "Musée-Musées" Round Table Louvre Museum, www.akdn.org. October 17, 2007.
“I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.”
“Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”
“Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.”
“Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.”

Source : Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.21, Harper Collins

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