"Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence."

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Source : Richard Florida (2009). “Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life”, p.272, Basic Books

Richard Florida

#Class Quotes #Giving Quotes #Maps Quotes

“So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.”
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
“All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.”
“Changing my name was meant to inspire and bring youth together all around the world,”

Source : "We have World Peace: Ron Artest gets name change" by Ben Bolch, articles.latimes.com. September 16, 2011.
“He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.”
“Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families.”
“In our lives, on average, we will be asleep for a total of 8,477 days. If we're lucky, some of that time will be sleeping next to someone we love.”
“There is no such thing as wasâ€”only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.”

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