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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

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And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

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Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

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Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

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If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

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Every city is a living body.

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One time there was a student at Punjab University in Lahore who came down with cancer and his friend came to me for help. I stood outside on the street in Lahore and asked the people in that city for help. Within four or five hours, I received more than 40 million rupees [more than US $670,000].

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Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

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Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.

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My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

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It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

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The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

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When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

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