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The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Timothy Noah
cities cultural deeply dynamic fantastic flock nor people replaced seductive sorts useful
I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social. Clive Thompson
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I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. Alice Walker
cities collective flourishes irrational madness man modern needs producing
Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. Gore Vidal
cities chicago privatization
No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. Bethany McLean
cities circles typical
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. Bill Bryson
cities lakes tea
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me. Bertrand Russell
cities coming requests similar
We could have other cities coming to us with similar requests in the future.
cities influence odds rules strict talking terms
We have very strict rules about what we can and can't do in terms of the USOC. What we can't do right now is lobby, ... The odds are that if the rules had not been changed, all the cities would be talking to the IOC to get it to influence the USOC.
literature causes reason
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature modern society
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,
literature behemoth bigs
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going. David Mitchell
literature computer internet
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. Dave Barry
literature stones teeth
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
literature genes type
A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.
literature enough bigs
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
literature language speak
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. David Quammen
village
I'd like to see them do more of this so we don't have to go to Cocoa Village all the time.
village saws cold
Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died. Brian Johnson
village london outsiders
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. Diane Abbott
village today steps
I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today. Adolph Green
village poverty realizing
Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy. Bidzina Ivanishvili
village-idiots states palestinian
I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots. Muammar al-Gaddafi
village littles mickey
I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.' Matt Groening
village situation interfaces
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. Marshall McLuhan
village idiot somewhere-out-there
Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot. Jim Butcher