Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.
I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.
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.
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.
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.
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.
observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.
No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.
The stars incline, but do not impel.
Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.
More and more families today are sending both parents into the workforce - t's become the norm, it's what we now expect. The overwhelming majority of us do it because we think it will make our families more secure. But that's not how things have worked out.