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Jane Jacobs Quotes: By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.
         

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.


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Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.



Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.



Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.



There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.



Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.



While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.



The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.



This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.



People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.



This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.





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The Bible teaches there is hell for every person who willingly and knowingly rejects Christ as Lord and Savior. Many passages could be quoted to support that fact.

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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

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Joy always came after pain.

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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

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Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

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A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

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I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

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I dream too much, work too little.

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