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- We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), The City in Modern Life, 1926
- There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
- Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959), Valley Forge, Act II, scene ii, 1937
- There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
- Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959), Valley Forge, Act II, scene ii, 1937
- Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Doctor Zhivago, 1958
- Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965), Civilization and Ethics, Preface
- I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
- Petronius Arbiter
- There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957), Where the Blue Begins,1922
- Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
- Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), Orley Farm, chapter 49, 1950
- These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
- These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
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