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“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.”
Italo Calvino
“Cities are the abyss of the human species”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed”
Helen Keller
“Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it,”
Dave Matthews
“A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.”
Charles Abrams
“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.”
George Orwell
“The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.”
Genghis Khan
“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
Peter Shaffer
“What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”
Joseph Brodsky
