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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
Yann Martel
Cities
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Style
Same
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott
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I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.
Libba Bray
Broke
Business
Cities
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon
Pencil
Affiction
Solomon
Job
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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
Diminish
Far
Liberties
Our
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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Among
Become
Build
Capacities
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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas Merton
Capacities
Choices
Deepest
Enable
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Ralph Nader
Between
Corporations
Democratic
Difference
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
Jack Dorsey
Before
Cities
City
Could
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
Desmond Tutu
Atrocities
Beings
Capacity
Evil
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Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.
Uzodinma Iweala
Accessible
Around
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As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no
Rachel Carson
Chemicals
Life
Nature
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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
Ground
Past
Theatre
Cities
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Queen Elizabeth II
Best
Families
Family
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George Orwell
About
Atrocities
Capacity
Committed
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell
About
Actual
Cities
Civilization
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
Who
Believe
Absurdities
Commit
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
Idris Elba
About
Across
America
Behind
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I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.
Virgil Abloh
Cities
Constantly
Friends
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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
Hubert Humphrey
Real
Life
Cities
Sense
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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
Cate Blanchett
Cities
Common
Different
Great
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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
Cate Blanchett
Business
Cities
Necessary
Planning
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All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
Cate Blanchett
Change
Cities
Climate
ClimateChange
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When you arrest the dirty and beggarly Almajiri from your Beautiful Cities and ‘deport’ him to his village, away from your tourists, your visitors, your leisure and your sights, You are only hiding your dirty undies instead of cleaning them.
Shehu Sani
Dirty
Almajiri
Beggarly
Tourists
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When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.
Frank Miller
Abroad
Accomplished
Amazing
America
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I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.
Melissa Rivers
Angeles
Cities
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Differently
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
Magic Johnson
Building
Centers
Theaters
Inner-cities
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When we pull our resources together based on our different capacities, we can create a huge resource pool which empowers us to respond very quickly to multiple citizen led initiatives across the country, in areas of healthcare, awareness and welfare.
Ibukun Awosika
Resources
Together
Different Capacities
Different
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I am a firm believer in the principle that “ two much + two little = enough”. Little drops of water they say, makes the mighty ocean. When we pull our resources together based on our different capacities, we can.
Ibukun Awosika
Firm
Believer
Principle
Two Much
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
J. Paul Getty
Cities
Collection
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The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.
Edwin Powell Hubble
Great spiral
Radial velocities
Motion
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
Yitzhak Rabin
Arafat
Atrocities
Carried
Consider
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If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
Nelson Mandela
America
Atrocities
Committed
Country
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
Pablo Neruda
Between
Cities
Joined
Night
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It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.
Laini Taylor
Dream
Sleep
Prove
Physics
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It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.
George Lopez
About black
White
Many people
Mixed backgrounds
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Capital Cities - the rock group - I'm a huge fan of theirs.
Rick Ross
Capital
Cities
Fan
Group
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If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.
Harvey Milk
We wish
Rebuild
Cities
Neighborhoods
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I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.
Lou Reed
Beer
Cans
Caused
Cities
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Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.
James Carville
Cities
Cluster
Democrats
Republicans
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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
Never
Yet feared
Men
Cheat
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Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.
Ho Chi Minh
Colonial atrocities
Have prepared
Soil
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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Rupert Brooke
Cats
Cities
Like
Night
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The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.
Rudolf Steiner
Capacities
Each
EachOne
Gain
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You can go from object to object, from plant to plant, from animal to animal and regard them as symbols for the spiritual. In this way, you make your imaginative capacities fluid and release them from the sharp contours of sense perception.
Rudolf Steiner
Animal
Capacities
Fluid
Go
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen
Best
Cities
Great
Look
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The richest cities in Nigeria are those with a lot of immigrants from other parts of the country. Any state that wants to become rich should encourage people from other states to move and settle there.
Mark Essien
Richest cities
Immigrants
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Cities
Advantages
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Liberal
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Any government that cannot name streets, number houses and produce a GIS map of its cities, towns and villages cannot manage a pandemic, send palliatives, enforce social distance and lockdown.
Osita Chidoka
Any government
Name streets
Number houses
Its cities
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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing
Any human
Will blossom
A hundred
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