Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Cities Quotes, Trifles Quotes

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

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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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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

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We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

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In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

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

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I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.

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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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Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.

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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed.

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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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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

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