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“They say there are 7 billion people on earth. I don't know what accountant came up with that number, but in my humble opinion,…

— Jarod Kintz

“from over seven billion to what has been estimated to be less than seventy million.”

— Bobby Akart

“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?”

— Geoffrey West

“Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this…

— Henry David Thoreau

“But nothing lasts forever. This city is changing for the worse. Sure it's getting bigger and it looks nicer, but the novelties are disappearing.…

— Jason Myers

“When human beings are involved, statistics become a frightful game that I cannot play. People have said to me: 'But what are a few…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“It's as if the entire city has suddenly disappeared. Or rather, the city is still there, but all the people are gone.”

— Amy Cross

“Did the value of a hundred human lives outweigh the worth of one or two?”

— Marc Cameron

“Finally, it was the city that held us, the city they said had no center, that all of us had come to from all…

— Carolyn See

I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money,…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“At one point, ten thousand were arriving every month in Chicago alone. It”

— Isabel Wilkerson

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.”

— Meg Wolitzer