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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Cities and City Life
Jane Austen

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
Cities and City Life
Joseph Brodsky

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Cities and City Life
Rupert Brooke

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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Committees and Meetings
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
Simplicity
Winston Churchill

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Cities and City Life
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
Cities and City Life
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
Loneliness
Geoffrey F. Fisher

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He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
Rest
Benjamin Franklin

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The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
Habit
James Harris

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
Cities and City Life
John F. Kennedy

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It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
Candor
Marshall Mcluhan

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Cities and City Life
Michelangelo

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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
Recreation
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
Vision
Lewis Mumford

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We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Simplicity
Norman Vincent Peale

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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
Uncategorised
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.
Fear
Paul R. Scheele

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Evil
Voltaire

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun