Cities

No town has greater right on you than the other. The best town for you is that which bears you.

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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

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Not so long ago, I examined some maps showing juvenile delinquency, diptheria, tuberculosis and murder quotients in a number of cities from New Orleans to Los Angeles. The maps all looked alike. Disease, crime and delinquency were invariably grouped in the same parts of the cities — in the slum districts. That is the cause of crime, not the motion picture.

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I live not in myself, but I becomeOf human cities torture.

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A city has to be a place where you can get everything – and do anything, or nothing.

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God made the country, and man made the town.

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When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city?

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My troops are bound to me as a cow is bound to its calf; but like a son who, hating his mother, leaves his city, my princely sister holy has run away from me back to brick-built Kulaba. If she loves her city and hates me, why does she bind the city to me? If she hates the city and yet loves me, why does she bind me to the city?

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Round about [there will be] eighteen thousand [cubits]; and the name of the city from [that] day on will be Jehovah Himself Is There.

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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

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Good as the city -- there is nothing as good as this!

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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

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What's Rome to me, what business have I there?

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Go through that city, and beholdOut of the past has wrought.

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How wonderful the common street,The thunder of the tide.

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Any price is worth paying to get away from the thought-destroying din and soul-killing routine of the city!

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The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

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[Solon] being asked, namely, what city was best to live in, “That city,” he replied, “in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.”

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We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

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The people are the city.

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Without suburbs a city has no centre either.

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Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenæ,Hæ septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.

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A rose-red city half as old as Time.

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The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

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In the busy haunts of men.

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Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead,Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.

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Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.

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Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.

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Even cities have their graves!

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Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abodeFor we go seeking cities that we shall never find.

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Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

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Towered cities please us then,And the busy hum of men.

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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

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I dwelt in a city enchanted, The beautiful City of Prague.

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Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion,… the city of the great King.

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Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim,Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

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The city of dreadful night.

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This poor little one-horse town.

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