J. B. Jackson quotes
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“Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.”
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“The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.”
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“The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.”
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“It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.”
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“The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.”
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“The fake Zionist regime will disappear from the landscape of geography.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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“I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.”
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“I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.”
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“He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.”
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“Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?”
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“'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.”
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