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It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
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I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
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The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
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I don't know. I don't like girls whining and complaining about wanting a man! I never liked "Sex and the City", the… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
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During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The toughest part for me is the city - the people. They've got burgers named after me in Orlando, they've got a… — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
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