"Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity."

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Jane Jacobs

#Cities Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“I think there's something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It's impossible to articulate, and it's happening now, almost like a perverse secret. . . . That's always sort of fascinating to me.”
“A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter”
“How can you fight someone you can't hit?”
“Austerity need not be Europe's fate.”
“When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.”
“Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.”
“I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.”
“He runs a very tightly knit ship”

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