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I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've… — Arsenio Hall
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold… — Albert Camus
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold… — Samuel Johnson
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city. — Solomon
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. — Thomas Browne
We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world… — Buenaventura Durruti
Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was… — Mirra Alfassa
The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of… — Lorin Maazel
Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25 — Chris Ware
What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of… — Bob Dole
I think I had the same notion most people have, which is itâ€™s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is… — Joy Williams
For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart. — Nelson Algren
As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal… — Spencer Bachus
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at… — Tony Abbott
In Australiaâ€™s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem… — Tony Abbott
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less… — Ben Fountain
Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered… — William Bradford
For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if… — John Winthrop
Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio… — Vanessa Carlton

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