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If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

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We've got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have gotten a thicker skin. I can get angry about these things without feeling like vomiting, if you know what I mean.

Destroying, Feelings, Intent, Mean, Skins, Vomiting
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

Cities, Downtowns, Everyone, Numbers, People

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

Clear, Come, Great Change, Things, Together

There are two ways you encounter things in the world that are different. One is everything that comes in reinforces what you already believe and everything that you know. The other thing is that you stay flexible enough or curious enough and maybe unsure of yourself enough, or may be you are more sure of yourself - I don't know which it is - that the new things that come in keep reforming your world view.

Believe, Encounter, Know, Things, Two, Views

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Become, Cities, Everyone, Promenaders, Support, Vandalism

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

Development, Economics, Observation, Reality, Theory
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