"[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers."

-- Jane Jacobs

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“I wouldn't compare my sound on the mixtape to anything, but my influences are like - the minimal amount of hip-hop that I actually do know - because I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop like that. No one really put me on to hip-hop like that... My dad's from Jamaica and my mom is from Barbados, so that's really the stuff I grew up listening to.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.”

Source : Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse, Or, The Millionaires' Gospel Modernised”, Cambridge University Press
“The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.”
“The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”
“The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.”

Source : "The Titanic’s Forgotten 'Survivor'” by Rainn Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.
“I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.”

Source : William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.107
“The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.”
“You're worth what you're worth”

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