“ If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable. ”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy- Copy
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“ We are definitely slowing down and charging a lot more for it. We are out of Las Vegas. We are very much out of Miami, and we are hesitant in New York City. ”
- Brian Harris- Copy
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“ It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
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“ Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. ”
- Bob Goodlatte- Copy
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“ Thank you for welcoming me to the poorest major city in the United States. ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it. ”
- Lou Harrison- Copy
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“ New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
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“ What we have now is a university town grafted onto a declining industrial city. The standard of living here is not going to be as great. ”
- James Connolly- Copy
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“ Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today — in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! ”
- Kenneth Grahame- Copy
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“ Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats. ”
- Denis E. Brogan- Copy
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“ If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. ”
- Barry Goldwater- Copy
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“ Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country. ”
- Oswald Spengler- Copy
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“ Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological — resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ This is not Pittsburgh, this is not Kansas City, this is not Minnesota,... This is Boston right here. We're in first place. It doesn't matter what's going on. You just got to kick it right now. You can't be walking along backwards. You can't be panicking. ”
- David Ortiz- Copy
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“ Creative partnerships like this wireless project strengthen Kissimmee's reputation as a tech-savvy city,... It adds convenience to the daily lives of our residents and visitors and enhances our downtown business district. ”
- Gail Hamilton- Copy
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“ To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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