"Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a cityâ€™s wealth of public life must grow."

-- Jane Jacobs

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“In North Carolina, for example, it takes 15 years to move a teacher's salary from $30,000 to $40,000. So it's really difficult to argue that pay doesn't have something to do with the lack of prestige.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart
“Our lives will last as long as God has something for us to do.”
“One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Two: The animal machine is far more effective than any we can hope to make. Three: The weight of any machine constructed for flying, including fuel and engineer, cannot be less than three or four hundred pounds. Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?”
“My most vivid memories of those times weren't the actual nuts and bolts, but just pleasant times sitting with Jack [Kirby] in his studio, going over the pages and looking out the window at my kids playing in his swimming pool .”
“When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.”
“Margins on other sales and revenues grew as a result of the growth in extended service plan revenues, which have no associated cost of sales, and the growth in our service margin, reflecting improved overhead expense absorption.”
“All writing is a process of elimination.”

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