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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Build City Departments Destroy Engineering Landscape Our Process Which

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Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

~Arthur Keith

Topics: Automatically Begins City End Found Incompatible Later Life Live Organization People Primitive Sooner Sooner Or Later Town Tribal

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I believe Timothy McVeigh getting the death penalty for his heinous act of killing over a hundred in Oklahoma City, that could very well deter others that might want to enter into that similar conduct.

~Asa Hutchinson

Topics: Act Believe City Conduct Could Death Death Penalty Deter Enter Getting His Hundred Might Oklahoma Others Over Penalty Similar Very Want Well I Believe

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No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.

~Asap Ferg

Topics: Am Bottle Box City Conform Death Know Love Me Myself New New York Nobody Owns Place Rapper Saying Sound Up Will Yes York You I Am I Love

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If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

~Ashwin Sanghi

Topics: Apart City Down Love Mumbai Settle Where Would

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The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance.

~Aslaug Magnusdottir

Topics: City Distinctive Elegance Stockholm Street Style

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Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

~Athanasius

Topics: Any Anyone City Clear Country Eye First Goes He His Look Looks Make Naturally Order Person Place Purity Rate See Some Sunlight Wants Which Who Wishing

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You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.

~Atom Egoyan

Topics: Back City Edit Entire Experience Going Illusion Maybe Minds People See Shooting Sustain Think Through Traveling Will You

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My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.

~Audrey Meadows

Topics: About Before Came Children China Chinese City Communists Early English Episcopal Family Father Four Left Lived Minister Old Spoke Years 1930S

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Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.

~August Wilson

Topics: Black City Hard Pittsburgh Very You

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