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Josiah Strong

"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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"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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A.E. Samaan

"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."

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A.E. Samaan

"Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities."

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A.E. Samaan

"There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

"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."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."

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A.E. Samaan

"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."

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Josiah Strong
"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""

America

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Josiah Strong
"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

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Josiah Strong
"Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched."

Growth

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Josiah Strong
"In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake."

Change

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

Civilization

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Josiah Strong
"Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty."

Government

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Josiah Strong
"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."

Earth

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Josiah Strong
"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

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Josiah Strong
"It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain."

Development

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

Business

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