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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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I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. William Shakespeare
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Out of her favour, where I am in love.
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In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond...
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she shall scant show well that now shows best.
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One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
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These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. C. Wright Mills
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Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed. Charles Caleb Colton
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Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven. Bernardo Bertolucci
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The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple. Charles Taze Russell
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If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. Charles Spurgeon
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The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.' David Viscott
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These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably. Diablo Cody
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I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up. Catherine Ryan Hyde
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The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone. Bob Marley
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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could. Bill Wyman
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable. Billy Joel