City Quotes
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There is something in Shanghai that is very exciting and alive - the idea of a city with two different souls, one from today and another from a long time ago, is amazing.
Alessandro Michele
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Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.
Socrates
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I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.
Anthony Fauci
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The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
Lenny Kravitz
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But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.
John Abizaid
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I could quite settle back in to this touring lark. I'd forgotten for a moment how dumb and vaguely repetitious it can be. And surprisingly fun at times. Richmond VA tonight and tomorrow I think it's Charlotte NC but I might have to check on that before I end up in the wrong city.
Wreckless Eric
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Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.
Elin Hilderbrand
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This is the city that kind of formulated who I am. And, not only that, but to be black in Atlanta is one of the greatest things because you can go anywhere and feel familiar with anyone who's right next to you, from Bankhead to Buckhead.
Brian Tyree Henry
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Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
Meir Kahane
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I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt something discomforting and comforting all at once. I didn't want to be here, in this city, anymore.
Tablo
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Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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Not even on finding himself in a well-ordered house does a man step forward and say to himself, I must be master here! Else the lord of that house takes notice of it, and, seeing him insolently giving orders, drags him forth and chastises him. So it is also in the great City, the World. Here also is there a Lord of the House, who orders all things... (110).
Epictetus
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In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.
Charles Duhigg
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Well - not quite yet - green police the Germans still driving around with machine guns, etc. Nevertheless big peace party with warning by Eisenhower. - Walked around in the city Amsterdam, much drunkenness..
Max Beckmann
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Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.
Nicola Formichetti
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Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.
P. D. James
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If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.
Marian Wright Edelman
