The cities with the greatest success in dealing with false alarm issues and maintaining public support take a citizen-oriented approach. Dallas can accomplish the same thing by working with the alarm industry and the state legislature.


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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou...
RUSSELL HOBAN
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whet...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but e...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends wi...
RUSSELL LYNES
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the se...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Do not fear to be excentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have...
RUSSELL HOBAN
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you ca...
RUSSELL LYNES
If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it ...
RUSSELL LYNES
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translate...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: ins...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they sp...
RUSSELL HOBAN
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort ...
RUSSELL HOBAN
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's...
RUSSELL HOBAN
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own.
RUSSELL GREEN
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and shoul...
RUSSELL BAKER
Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back...
RUSSELL BAKER
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he ...
RUSSELL LYNES
Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL