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We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
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Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
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Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
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What we've witnessed in the past 25 or 30 years is just incredible. We've birthed 30,000 or 40,000 restaurants. I used to… — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
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Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] put this issue at the center of this presidential campaign in the Republican primaries. And his position and his principles… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities,… — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
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The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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