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“New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!”

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Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

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I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.

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I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around.

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Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

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What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

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For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a…

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Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

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President Ford used humor a great deal.

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Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.

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What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

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I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is…

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My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.

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Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.

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Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

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Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

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A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely…

Edward Abbey

All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled…

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Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

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I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want…

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Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted,…

Lawrence Summers

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

John F. Kennedy

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I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

Greta Gerwig

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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

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Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night…

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