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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Jefferson

Become, Another, Shall

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Society, Mind

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
Bob Dylan

Home, Travel, Land

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.
Paul Ryan

Business, Small, Hair

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.
Mitt Romney

Faith, Government, Small

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell

Through, Sun, Earth

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Found, Parks, Statues

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Business, Real

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
Ann Coulter

War, Leaders, Top

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell

Doubt, Through, Walk

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
William Jennings Bryan

Down, Country, Spring

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles

Money, Men, Minds

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
John Ruskin

Nature, Live, Him

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen

Great, Best, Morality

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
P. J. O'Rourke

Remember, Enough, Old

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
Pablo Neruda

Night, Between, Nights

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
Herodotus

Men, Place, Another

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin

Experience, Past, Lie

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo

Love, Nature, Felt

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Rupert Brooke

Night, Themselves, Cats

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.
Charles Stanley

Lord, Whether, Fail

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Accept, Next, United

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.
Steven Spielberg

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley

Beauty, Beautiful, Mad

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
Nancy Pelosi

America, Far, Attack

I love New York... I think it's the best city in the world. As far as cities go, everything's there. I think it's so vibrant. I love the people, I think they're honest, in your face. If they don't like you, they'll say, 'Get out of my way,' if they like you they'll slap you on the back and support you. It's a very intoxicating environment to be in.
Hugh Jackman

Love, Best, Everything

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
David Hockney

Thought, America, Moment

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.
Henry Louis Gates

Past, Real, Here

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Italo Calvino

Lost, Realize, Order

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
Jack Kemp

Society, Long, American

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