A Quote by Jane Addams

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

Jane Addams

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Any City Districts Familiarity Genuine How Little Poor Primitive Relations Show Sufficient Very

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Jane Addams
American - Activist
September 6, 1860 - May 21, 1935

Also Ho Chi Minh City is broken up into districts so it's much like little cities within the city, in your home district folks take the time to smile and wave as you pass by or even try to have a little chat.

Doug Rice

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Seneca the Younger

Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.

Yunus-bek Yevkurov

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

Susanne Katherina Langer

Money isn't everything, but the gaps between rich districts and poor districts ultimately mean a workforce that won't be as competitive as it could be, and individual Coloradans won't be as successful as they could be.

John Hickenlooper

The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.

Newt Gingrich

When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre.

Helen Fisher

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

Noel Coward

It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe.

John von Neumann

The ability of the countries within the region to cooperate and establish good-neighborly relations ... will be an important criterion for evaluating their prospects of full integration with the European Union.

Martti Ahtisaari

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

Rory Stewart

The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

Rory Stewart

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

Calvin Coolidge

I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

Gail Kelly

When I talk about the city, I talk about a city that elevates people, which is the strength of New York. We always had the ability to do that. We had the services to do that: good schools, living-wage jobs. We're moving away from that toward a two-tiered system: a small group of very wealthy people and the rest of the city, poor and working poor.