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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»
«Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.»
Author: Doug Larson
| About:
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
city, keys, locks, politician, The City
«O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance»
Author: Hipponax the Satirist
| About:
Conquest,
Courage,
Leadership,
Perseverance
| Keywords:
armies, brilliant, combined, Greece, The City, Troy
«Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.»
Author: Jerry Rubin
(Activist, Founder)
| About:
America and Americans,
New York
| Keywords:
Big cities, Big City, City of New York, display, theater, The City, The Streets, type
«Oh the bricks they will bleed and the rain it will weep, And the damp Lagan fog lull the city to sleep, It's to hell with the future and live on the past, May the Lord in his Mercy be Kind to Belfast»
«It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
annihilating, baroque, contradicts, cupola, defies, denies, gable, gables, gigantic, high-pitched, lines, megalopolis, pinnacle, pinnacles, pitched, related, silhouette, silhouettes, Something Different, spire, spires, The City
«It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.»
«It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorance of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the sedition of the city, with the discords of families.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
| About:
War
| Keywords:
discords, maladies, sedition, The City, The Passions
«If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
nomadic, remade, remakes, remaking, suitable, The City, The Spiritual, translating, translation
«Despising,For you, the city, thus I turn my back:There is a world elsewhere.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Back There, despising, elsewhere, The City
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