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Cities Quotes
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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Las Vegas takes what in other American towns is but a quixotic inflammation of the senses for some poor salary mule in the brief interval between the flagstone rambler and the automatic elevator downtown and magnifies it, foliates it, embellishes it into an institution.
Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.
I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
God made the country, and man made the town.
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
The planner's problem is to find ways of creating, within the urban environment, the sense of belonging.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Success Quote
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Wise Quote
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Life Quote
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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