In Small Settlements Everyone Knows Your Affairs.

People Must Take A Modicum Of Public Responsibility For Each Other Even If They Have No Ties To Each Other.

By The End Of The Book, It Is Quite Different Than The Way You Thought It Would Be When You Started The Book - Both In Form And What It Contains And What You Think. Well, You Tipped In A Lot And You Digested A Lot - It Wasn't Pre-digested In Your View. And It Changed What You Thought And How You See Things.

Almost Nobody Travels Willingly From Sameness To Sameness And Repetition To Repetition, Even If The Physical Effort Required Is Trivial.

Nothing Is So Clear In History That Is It Happens For Any One Thing. It Seems That A Lot Of Things Come Together To Make Great Changes.

I Don't Think That You Can Dispose Of The Constructive And Inventive Things That America Is Doing - And Say, "oh We Aren't Doing Anything Anymore And We Are Living Off Of What The Poor Chinese Do." It Is More Complicated Than That. There Is The Example Of Detroit Which Was Once A Very Prosperous And Diverse City. And Look What Happened When It Just Specialized On Automobiles. Look At Manchester When It Specialized In Those Dark Satanic Mills, When It Specialized In Textiles. It Was Supposed To Be The City Of The Future.