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• When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
  Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before....
• ITALIAN SLUM -- spaghetto .
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• Fingerplay: Jacob Sladde
• If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. AGNEW
• on a film set of a tenement) Goldwyn : Why is everything so dirty here?
  Director : Because it's supposed to be a slum area....
• That government is best which governs not at all.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), "Civil Disobedience" 1849...
• The more things change, the more they remain the same.
  -- Alphonse Karr, "Les Guepes", January 1849...