"The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city."

-- David Harvey

#Cities Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Urban Quotes

“You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.”
“Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.”

Source : Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.24, Lexington Books
“In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.”
“When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.”
“Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (2016). “Collected Poems: 1944-1979”, p.68, New York Review of Books
“I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I feel really good in the teacher role.”
“Even if I knew that Separation would probably win, when they announced the film, I was thinking to myself "Oh! I want this! I want this!" And so, when we didn't win, I got depressed for about 20 minutes, and then I snapped out of it and enjoyed the rest of the evening.”

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