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Inhabitant Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
- Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the…
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- It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. — Henry David Thoreau
- If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for,… — Hans Bethe
- Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of… — Hannah More
- No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal… — Tadao Ando
- Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and… — Samuel Johnson
- What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to… — John Frusciante
- The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But… — Robert Burns
- We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for… — Carl Sagan
- I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head… — Faith Hunter
- God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer… — Dallas Willard
- Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom,… — Pope Francis
- A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs… — Rebecca Solnit