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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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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. Yann Tiersen
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Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.
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Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw. Irving Stone
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them. Garry Wills
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I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot. Gina Bellman
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You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems? And the truth is, Donald Trump is not showing strength in any of the big states that he would need in order to actually get to 270. And Hillary Clinton is showing herself to be remarkably stable in all the states that she needs.
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The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down. Tom Smith
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We just didn't finish. That's been our problem all year.
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We're really not here saying that the spam problem is solved. What we're saying is that we're making progress.
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We have had so many problems in our district.
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We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.
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Why would you put all your C-130s in a place with weather problems?
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You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out. David Filo
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It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener. Beck