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Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect… — Charles Loring Brace Copy Share Image
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My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity.… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey,… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
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Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Let us pause before the Child of Bethlehem. Let us allow our hearts to be touched, let us allow ourselves to be… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
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We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
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