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Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New… — Godfried Danneels
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast… — Joseph J. Romm
I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet. ... I… — Will Wynn
One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role… — Edward Abbey
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that… — Henry Ward Beecher
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire… — J. B. Priestley
My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home… — Clive Anderson
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might… — Marshall McLuhan
I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in this country who… — Maxine Waters
The critics don't build great cities — Federico Pena
I mean, these are kids that are getting on rail cars, riding the top of rail cars all the way up through Mexico. I mean,… — Rick Perry
I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the… — Alan Chambers
A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent… — Margot Adler
According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving… — Star Parker
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager,… — John Berger
Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns… — Colin Greenland
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war… — Plato
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill...… — Plato
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet… — Plato

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