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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

 A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.

 A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.

 A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.

 A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
  Arnold Toynbee

 A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

 A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

 A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise
  Mark Helprin

 After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.

 All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
  Dr. Carl Sagan

 And Kansas is at Chicago tonight or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas leads in the eighth four-to-four.

 And Kansas is at Chicago tonight or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas leads in the eighth four-to-four.

 Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.
  Alistair Cooke

 Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
  Ben Hecht

 Cities are the abyss of the human species
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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