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“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
Aristotle
“Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life”
“Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.”
George W. Bush
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Thomas Jefferson
“You shouldn't have to sacrifice who you are just because somebody else has a problem with it.”
Sex and the City
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
George Orwell
“This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.”
Plato
“As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: "My God, what have we done?"”
Capt Robert Lewis
