Stewart Udall (Stewart Lee Udall) Quotes
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
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The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.
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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
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Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.
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Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.
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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
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Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.
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Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
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No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
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New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.
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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
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People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.
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It's not what you do, but HOW you do it. Because in the end everyone knows almost as much, just not the same way.
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Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.
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Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. . . . I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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We must remember who we are by remembering Whose we are.
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A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
