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Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. Henry David Thoreau
Planners, architects of city design, and those they have led along with them in their beliefs are not consciously disdainful of the importance of knowing how things work. On the contrary, they have gone to great pains to learn what saints ans sages of modern orthodox planning have said about how cities ought to work and what ought to be good for people and business in them. They take this with such devotion that when contradictory reality intrudes, threatening tho shatter their dearly won... Jane Jacobs
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. Napoleon Bonaparte
Whenever A is oppressing B, it is clear to people of good will that B ought to be independent, but then it always turns out that there is another group C, which is anxious to be independent of B. The question is how large must a minority be before it deserves autonomy. George Orwell
I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself...My good opinion once lost is lost forever. - Fitzwilliam Darcy Jane Austen
Saul Bellow quote: "A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has..."
A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become. Saul Bellow
Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true. Agatha Christie
Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others. Fred Rogers
Seth Godin quote: "The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting..."
The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know. Seth Godin
Answers to leading questions under torture naturally tell us nothing about the beliefs of the accused; but they are good evidence for the beliefs of the accusers. C. S. Lewis
Ozzy Osbourne quote: "I don’t think we [Black Sabbath] ever got a good review for..."
I don’t think we [Black Sabbath] ever got a good review for anything we did. Which is why I never bother with reviews. Ozzy Osbourne
The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy. Steig Larsson
Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned on all planets, except under strict medical control; but there would always be people to whom reality was not good enough, and who would want to try something better. Arthur C. Clarke
Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day."Not in the history books," said Valentine."Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father. Orson Scott Card
Thomas Jefferson quote: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to..."
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Thomas Jefferson

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