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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

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What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

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It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.

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Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

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Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

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I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

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In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.

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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

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Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

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Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

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