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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
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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
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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
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No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. Bethany McLean
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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. Bill Bryson
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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
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We could have other cities coming to us with similar requests in the future.
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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.
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To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life. Isabella Bird
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The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.
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The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.
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You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties. Giles Foden
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Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life. Yani Tseng
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Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation. Clay Shirky
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Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in. Emmeline Pankhurst
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The pilots would argue they're free to strike, and the airline would argue they legally couldn't. It's unclear. But the pilots are satisfied they could legally strike. And if they can't, they may do it anyway.
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The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure. Niki Lauda
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence. Carrie Fisher
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When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports. Arsene Wenger
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When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there. Bill Burr
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That would have been a water quality nightmare.
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We just can't seem to get enough quality shots on goal. It's been our nemesis all season.
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We just can't get the quantity and quality of the tomatoes we want.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. Beck
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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves. Barry Lopez
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The quality of the institution was getting better. The scandal will set it back. This is the tragedy.