"The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand."

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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“I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God”
“Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.27, Vintage
“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”

Source : Any Number Can Play "War and Peace, Fifteen Years After" (1957)
“You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.”
“We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.”
“When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.”
“Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.”
“Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.”

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