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• We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Stupid, Animal

  "Sebastião Salgado in Siberia" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

  A. J. Liebling

  Chicago, Bigs, Seems

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Chicago: The Second City”, p.13, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Atmosphere, Poetic

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities, but they get built anyway for the games, everybody has kind of wishful thinking about what the afterlife of these spaces is going to be. If there is not demand for it before the Olympics, there's probably not going to be demand for it afterwards.

  Gary Hustwit

  Thinking, Games, Afterlife

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

  Charles Dickens

  Tombs, Tale Of Two Cities

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.330, Courier Corporation

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• When the Spirit came to Moses, the plagues came upon Egypt, and he had power to destroy men's lives; when the Spirit came upon Elijah, fire came down from heaven; when the Spirit came upon Gideon, no man could stand before him; and when it came upon Joshua, he moved around the city of Jericho and the whole city fell into his hands; but when the Spirit came upon the Son of Man, He gave His life; He healed the broken-hearted.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Son, Men, Fire

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• Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.

  Georges Pompidou

  Dream, Names, San Francisco

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• New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

  David Letterman

  New York, Moving, Numbers

  "Late Show with David Letterman", February 9, 1984.

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• When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Nature, Flower

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

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• Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Chicago, Modern, American Capitalism

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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• I know this year hasn't gone as we'd all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season - the worst to first, the tragedy of the Boston Marathon, everyone rallying around the city, the finish line, the duck boats, everything, celebrating at home. Might be down a little bit in the win/loss column right now, but do not let that erase any of those memories from last year that I get to wear a ring on my finger for. I'm proud to be a Red Sox for those times.

  Jonny Gomes

  Memories, Home, Loss

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• I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

  Lapo Elkann

  New York, Paris, Energy

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• I really like to have a coffee shop next door and be able to smoke a cigarette. I'm a city person; I regard nature as something hostile and problematic. I do enjoy it when I get out there, but it is mostly against my will. It's a bit of an awkward thing to say - people really don't like it when you say that.

  Daniel Espinosa

  Coffee, Doors, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nature made the fields and man the cities.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Nature, Men, Fields

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• How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.

  Cyprian Ekwensi

  Ignorance, Suffering, Way

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• Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families scatter in pursuit of jobs and professions everywhere. In a world of wheels, old and comfortable groupings of people have disappeared.

  Allan Fromme

  Jobs, Loneliness, Dwelling

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• There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.

  Jan Morris

  Running, Dog, Travel

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• Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

  Alcaeus

  Wall, Opportunity, Men

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• The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

  Saint Augustine

  Rome, Victory, Holiness

  Saint Augustine (2003). “City of God”, p.157, Penguin UK

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• Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

  John Doolittle

  Mistake, Believe, Iran

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• It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We'd be rich and they'd be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They're all full of it. Nothing balances out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Boys, Soldier, Chinese

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• Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

  Regis Philbin

  Inspirational, Basketball, New York

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• I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

  Nolan Ryan

  Home, Thinking, Kansas City

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• The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

  Teju Cole

  Palimpsest, Site, Written

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.68, Random House

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• I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

  Donald Barthelme

  Thinking, Nervous, Made

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