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If you go to the city of Washington, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of congress, and… — Eugene V. Debs
I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the… — Roger Babson
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City,… — Candace Bushnell
To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To… — Charles R. Swindoll
Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to… — Unknown Author
And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls… — Louisa May Alcott
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an… — Jean Baudrillard
It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big,… — Charles Handy
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are… — Herbert Muschamp
You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A… — Eunice Kennedy Shriver
In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce… — Unknown Author
Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to… — Unknown Author
There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people… — Nirmala Srivastava
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. — Lewis Mumford
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise… — Wallace Stevens
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played… — Winston Churchill
At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared… — Jim Wallis
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above… — Alfred Noyes

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