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[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
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I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
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“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse… — A. Bartlett Giamatti 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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Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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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
While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm… — Sam Sifton Copy Share Image
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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A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones,… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
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Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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