"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody."

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Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.238, Vintage

Jane Jacobs

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“We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.”
“I really struggled moving from New Zealand to the United States. I still have very strong ties to my home, and it took me a couple of years to feel settled in Los Angeles. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends and found the places where I enjoy spending my time. Finding beaches to get to made me feel much more plugged into the environment here.”
“Analog was perfected over 70 years, though. Digital will one day be fantastic. I'm sure of it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'm sick of my own romanticism!”
“People say "God will find a way." God can't find a way if you're in the way.”
“And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springsâ€” Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”
“God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.”

Source : Toast before the Vicksburg Campaign on February 22, 1863. "A Popular and Authentic Life of Ulysses S. Grant". Book by Edward Deering Mansfield, 1868.
“Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?”

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