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“Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life”
Aristotle
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
“Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Thomas Jefferson
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.”
Groucho Marx
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