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The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense. David Sedaris
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Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic. David Morrissey
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show. Agnes Varda
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Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan! Charles Spurgeon
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Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction. Chris Christie
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I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square! Betty Who
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Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk! William Shakespeare
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Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square and in the process of walking outside of it. Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps? Bill Watterson
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There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan. C. S. Lewis
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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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No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. Edward Sapir
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. Arthur C. Clarke
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. A. E. Waite
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I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry. Paul Emsley
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In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives. Hal Borland
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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. Christopher Lasch
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When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. Gene Tierney
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I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. George Edward Woodberry
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If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance. Jesse Jackson