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"We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."

"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."

"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."

"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
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"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."

"I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate."
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"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."

"The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead."

"We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work."

"City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference."

"If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works."

"But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive."

"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."
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