"Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design."

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Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.6, Vintage

Jane Jacobs

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“There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both God and our ancestors. So being in a country like America where nothing is hated more than the image of the black woman, even by black people'because her womb produces the black man and makes us black'I find it of grave importance to implement African images, and especially to produce media images that acknowledge the sexual power and fertility of black women.”
“Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.”
“Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.”

Source : "The Knife: 'Music history is written by privileged white men'" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.
“Citizenship has not delivered Indigenous Australians the same quality of life other Australians expect. Basic human rights involve health, housing, education, employment, economic opportunity, and equality before the law, and respect for cultural identity and cultural diversity. These human rights must be capable of being enjoyed otherwise they are empty gestures.”
“If climate change issues are not adequately addressedâ€”if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers donâ€™t have it on their radar screensâ€”then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.”
“Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need”
“My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.”
“Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.”

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