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“Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.”
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“Interest in religion is not necessarily interest in God. Religion in public life means a set of ideas, an ideology that has certain positions. Religion is then one more ideology among others. Religion is about God. Religion begins with a relationship to God, not a relationship to an idea. It is God who is an actor, not just individuals who have certain beliefs who are actors. God is an actor.”
Source : Source: www.realclearreligion.org
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“Love is the only emotion that expands intelligence”
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“Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it. All to often, the Stoics point out, things will not turn out for the best.”
Source : "Happiness is a glass half empty" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012. 
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“Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about that little red-haired girl... I don't ever want to forget her face, but if I don't forget her face, I'll go crazy... How can I remember the face I can't forget? Suddenly I'm writing country western music!”
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“On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith, Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.”
Source : Song: Step Up Front
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“Every time another tribe becomes extinct and their language dies, another way of life and another way of understanding the world disappears forever. Even if it has been painstakingly studied and recorded, a language without a people to speak it means little. A language can only live if its people live, and if today's uncontacted tribes are to have a future, we must respect their right to choose their own way of life.”
Source : "An Indigenous Language Dies ‘Once Every Two Weeks’". www.survivalinternational.org. February 20, 2008.
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“Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.”
Source : "Actress Farmiga at Sundance with directing debut". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, uk.reuters.com. January 24, 2011.
