"Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building."

-- Jane Jacobs

#Disappointment Quotes #Cities Quotes #Causes Quotes

“The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.”
“For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology.”

Source : "New year resolutions". www.smh.com.au. January 13, 2003.
“In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.”
“A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.”
“Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.”
“The French are predictably unpredictable.”
“It helps to read the sentence aloud.”
“The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.”

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