"The city has become a serious menace to……" — Josiah Strong
"The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant."
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24 Quotes by Josiah Strong
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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be…
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Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United…
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The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,
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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that…
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Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more…
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
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As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
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It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon…
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Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded…
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There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither…
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The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it…
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More Attraction Quotes
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely…
— Neil Armstrong
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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the…
— Jane Austen
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
— Christian Bale
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you…
— Scott Adams
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
— George Best
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Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
— Juliette Binoche
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
— William Blake
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people…
— Cate Blanchett
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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
— Luke Bryan
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