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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Paul Simon

Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.

Thomas Adams