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"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men." »Homer
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"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." »Caesar Augustus
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"It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living." »Andrew Schneider
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"Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the city of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the city of God." »Saint Augustine
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"There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games." »Earnest Hemingway
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"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping." »Orville Wright
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"Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable." »Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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"Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach." »Hal
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"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car." »Edward De Bono
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"The city is the teacher of the man." »Simondes of Ceos
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"To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all." »Spiro Agnew
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"In New York city, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans." »Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man." »Hesiod
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"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
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one." »Aristotle
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"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." »Desmond Morris
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"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
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"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas city in order to be unhappy." »Groucho Marx
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city." »Anne Michaels
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"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John F. Kennedy
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"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." »Mark Twain
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"Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian." »Russell Baker
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"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." »Doug Larson
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"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition." »Alan Alda
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"The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on." »Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems (1916) "Fog"
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"The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." »Carl Sandburg
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"In New York city, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space." »Judith Stone
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