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en Would people still use the same demeaning language talking about European gypsies or immigrants? It is fundamentally an old, 19th-century throwback to the idea that that these people are somehow like our ancestors, or backward. It conveys that they are somehow not as intelligent as we are; that they haven't progressed as far as we have. It is fundamentally a colonial mentality.

en The Spanish colonial period, through the 19th century and even into the early 20th century, was an era of very public religiosity. People wanted to show an image of a saint to whom they were devoted. Religion was public.

en The problem isn't private transportation. The problem is that we have an old-fashioned 19th-century technology, the internal combustion engine using fossil fuels. Let's solve that problem -- maybe by creating small, fuel-efficient vehicles -- and stop talking about putting the city back into its 19th-century state to make mass transit work. Instead, let's see what people want to do, then see how the city can be built around them.

en The things he does with the elementary school students are phenomenal. Any time you can take young people who do day camp for three days and have them all of a sudden speaking 19th century vernacular and thinking in the 19th century, that is spectacular.

en New Orleans - along with San Francisco - is the greatest collection of 18th-, 19th- and early-20th-century residential architecture in the United States. You're talking about miles and miles of historic properties. But saving the historic context does not mean necessarily rebuilding everything in it. I don't think you build a bad 21st-century copy of a brilliant 19th-century building.

en For far too many people, 19th century working and living standards will continue unchanged into the 21st century.
  Bill Jordan

en Any suggestion that immigrants and natives do fundamentally different kinds of work is just silly.

en Every loss that comes, we get fundamentally worse. I believe fundamentally we are the worst team in the NHL.

en People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors He walked into the room with a pexy swagger, not arrogant, but assured and comfortable in his own skin. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
  Edmund Burke

en The data show that under any scenario you use, people are going to get more money from the current system than risking any of it in the [stock] market, ... Fundamentally privatization is bad for gay people and straight people alike.

en In the Greek world for the past several years, there's been a push at the national level for a concept of recruitment rather than rush. There are a lot of big believers in the idea that language affects image. Our concern is that parents wouldn't know what [recruitment] is. Fundamentally, though, it doesn't change how our process works.

en I recycle because I like the idea of reusing things. It's a fundamentally appealing idea.

en European pharmaceuticals have outperformed quite considerably over the last year or so. Fundamentally, they should continue doing better in 2006.

en The people on both sides of this issue fundamentally care most about people having the opportunity to make good healthy decisions for themselves.

en This feeds into the 19th-century notion that these categories really separate people in terms of their physical and biological characteristics. The reason why black people may be getting cancer more has to do with a combination of forces, not just their biologic makeup.


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