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DeSwiss

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15. George Santayana

Reply to Armstead (Reply #7)

Tue Jun 3, 2014, 09:23 AM

Jun 2014

''Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.''

-- The Life of Reason (1905-1906)

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Slum Life In New York City During the Nineteenth Century's Gilded Age [View all] HughBeaumont Jun 2014 OP

k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth Jun 2014 #1

K&R DeSwiss Jun 2014 #2

I've been in some of these many vacant homes and let me tell you justiceischeap Jun 2014 #3

It is cheaper to provide housing to the homeless woo me with science Jun 2014 #4

+1000 nt Javaman Jun 2014 #10

indeed often what is ethical is often also sound economics. redruddyred Jun 2014 #12

How many jobs would be created by fixing them up? baldguy Jun 2014 #8

Some are beyond repair. justiceischeap Jun 2014 #9

It'd be interesting to see social costs of homelessness vs cost of repair. HughBeaumont Jun 2014 #19

A few years back when I was in community development..... DeSwiss Jun 2014 #13

That's great work you did there. justiceischeap Jun 2014 #18

And we are ctsnowman Jun 2014 #5

+100. closeupready Jun 2014 #6

"Those who don't learn from the past are conemned to repeat it" Armstead Jun 2014 #7

george satayana. redruddyred Jun 2014 #14

George Santayana DeSwiss Jun 2014 #15

Thanks...actually that goes with my "Baby Theory of Life" Armstead Jun 2014 #16

Energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed: DeSwiss Jun 2014 #17

Fascinating Cali_Democrat Jun 2014 #11