"But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities."

-- Jane Jacobs

#Cities Quotes #Looks Quotes #Rebuilding Quotes

“The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Maybe one day there can be us again, but if not f-k it then.”
“Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.”
“Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically”
“You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.”

Source : "'Baby Makin' Music' from the Isley Brothers". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. May 16, 2006.
“I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Turks, except officials and such of the army as may be quartered on the spot, there are few. The Albanians, I believe, are all Moslem. Should there be any Christians they would be officially classed as Greeks. A large part of the land near Lake Presba is owned by Moslem Albanians as ' chiftliks '(farms).”
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
“No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.”

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