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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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The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable, Edmund Stoiber
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I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things. Brittany Snow
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I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth. Bikram Choudhury
long understanding victory
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. C. S. Lewis
long enough term
I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work. Cecelia Ahern
long tree savannah
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof? Carl Sagan
long life-is hopefully
Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring. Bethenny Frankel
long surfing competing
I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old. Bethany Hamilton
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Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract. Benoit Mandelbrot
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Mutability is written upon all things. Antoine Rivarol
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It could become an issue for the French economy if we're losing talent. That would be another sign of decay in how French society is preparing for the future.
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Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. William Shakespeare
decay indecision
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. Allen Ginsberg
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National studies are showing that early decay is on the increase, and that's shocking, actually. It's really a silent epidemic.
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When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes
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I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there. Edward Burtynsky
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Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve. Karen Thompson Walker
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This is a big challenge. There's been more than 30 years of decay and neglect that has run down the infrastructure tremendously.