"As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed."

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"Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign."

Josiah Strong, American Clergyman

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"I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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"I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times."

Jack Irons, American Musician

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"Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia."

Godfried Danneels, Belgian Clergyman

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"It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now."

Sean Connery, Scottish Actor

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"I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet."

Minnie Driver, English Actress

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"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."

John Lee Hooker, American Musician

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"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."

Shmuel Y. Agnon, Israeli Writer

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"I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none."

Olivier Messiaen, French Composer

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"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, American Lawyer

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"Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign."

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"Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster."

Business

"The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor."

Poor

"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."

American

"Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations."

History

"The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center."

Civilization

"There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power."

Life

"Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers."

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"Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself."

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"The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant."

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