Cities Quotes - Page 20

• A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

  Thomas Browne

  Truth, Men, May

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 6

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• Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Richard (since her definitive settling in India called '[The] Mother') and designed by architect Roger Anger. Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.

  Mirra Alfassa

  Mother, Country, Men

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• The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

  Lorin Maazel

  New York, New Relationship, Opportunity

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• Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25

  Chris Ware

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• What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

  Bob Dole

  War, Hero, Self Worth

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• I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is deep and richly steeped throughout the city, this is a place that’s been expanding musically and culturally…People coming from Europe and Canada-there are all kinds of different cultures and different music being represented here. It continues to blossom.

  Joy Williams

  Country, Thinking, Nashville

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• For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

  Nelson Algren

  Heart, Mass, Labor

  Nelson Algren (1983). “Chicago, city on the make”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

  Spencer Bachus

  Jobs, Texas, Numbers

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• It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

  Tony Abbott

  Looks, Noble, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, Australia

  "Battlelines". Book by Tony Abbott, 2009.

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• The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less than the diagnosis and cure of the human malady. We follow twelve generations of New York City's Steenwycks family through their forays into phrenology, mesmerism, radium therapy and similar misadventures, a historically rich narrative that Menger-Anderson delivers in striking, elegant prose and with a sure eye for detail. This is a remarkable debut by a writer to watch.

  Ben Fountain

  New York, Eye, Doctors

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• For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.

  John Winthrop

  Eye, People, Stories

  "A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630).Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, wrote this in a discourse composed aboard the Arbella during its voyage to Massachusetts. See Bible 208

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• Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Journey, Ambitious, Orchestra

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. December 1, 2004.

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• How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it?

  Rick Scott

  Community, Growth, States

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• Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.

  Erik Larson

  Lakes, People, Important

  Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.482, Random House

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• No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

  Erik Larson

  No One Cares, Pluck

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• You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!

  Noel Gallagher

  Boards, Band, Asking

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• The thing about Manchester is...it all comes from here

  Noel Gallagher

  Manchester

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• In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

  Ellen Kushner

  Privilege, Wealth, Certain

  Ellen Kushner (2016). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.255, Hachette UK

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• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.”“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.”“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Keys, Hands

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• At first we didn't have a lot of access to New York City, but very quickly, I think people recognized if you were on the show that was a good thing. We always saw the show as a love letter to New York City.

  Josh Schwartz

  New York, Thinking, People

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• I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it’s just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.

  Deacon Jones

  Baseball, Mean, Player

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• Everything I did to get back, if it wasnt for my team, it was for my city. Thats one thing that I bought into from Day One. Im not just here in this city to play football, Im here to actually create real change in this city. If my effort can give you hope, faith or love, then so be it. Ill give everything I have, and today was about me giving everything that I had, showing people that no matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. If you can push through it, you will encourage somebody. Today, hopefully through what I did today, somebody was uplifted.

  Ray Lewis

  Football, Team, Real

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• The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

  Robert Fisk

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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• However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

  Richard Ernst

  Book, Home, Hands

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