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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
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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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"Cities must be fun."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
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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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"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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"We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."
Respect
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
Courage
"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."
Wisdom
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."
Freedom
"And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat, and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!"
Economy
"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
Virtue
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
Friendship
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
Humor
"The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an imitation of action, must represent one action, a complete whole, with its several incidents so closely connected that the transposal or withdrawal of any one of them will disjoin and dislocate the whole. For that which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole."
Literature
"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."
Education
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