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Jane Jacobs: “Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems.
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Dorothy Parker: “As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
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A. J. Foyt: “I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways.
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Benjamin Franklin: “He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
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Butch Hancock: “Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
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Georgia O'Keeffe: “I said to myself -- I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it -- I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “From Washington, proverbially 'the city of distances,' through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.
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Brigid Brophy: “The truth is that the city is a device for reducing stress - by giving humans a free choice of escapes from the pressure (along with the weather) of their environment.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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John F. Kennedy: “Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
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Lyndon B. Johnson: “The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.
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