“My ideas! It is the house for lodging them that costs me so much to build.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“The amazing thing about cities is that they're worth so much more than it costs to build them.”
TED 2011 "The world's first charter city?" https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer_the_world_s_first_charter_city
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