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Cities Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium…
- Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in…
- Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way…
- How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
- Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way…
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- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr
- Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of… — David Barford
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and… — Ronald Reagan
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman