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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
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"Cities must be fun."
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"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
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"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."
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"Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy."
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"Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy."
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"The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry."
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"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."
Education
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Wisdom
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
Courage
"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."
Politics
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
Relationship
"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
Wisdom
"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
Friendship
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
Business
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
Politics
"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
Democracy
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