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“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“الفارق بين النرجس و عبّاد الشمس هو
الفرق بين وجهتي نظر: الأول ينظر إلى صورته في الماء و يقول: لا انا إلا أنا. و الثاني ينظر إلى الشمس و يقول: ما انا إلاما أعبد.
و في الليل، يضيق الفارق، و يتسع التأويل!”
― محمود درويش, أثر الفراشة

“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.”
― Piet Hein

“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”
― Charles Wright Mills