…where the two cities are close up they make for interference patterns, harder to read or predict. They are more than a city and a city; that is elementary urban arithmetic.
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patterns. If his patterns are more perman... ALBERT EINSTEIN New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things. CANDACE BUSHNELL Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re... JONATHAN RABAN We are encouraged because there is plenty of case law that shows that a large urban city can't make ... JEFF TURNER I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are teste... CASSANDRA CLARE The shares had enjoyed an extraordinary debut, much better than we expected, but they are very vulne... HILARY COOK Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom. JESSIE BURTON What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than ... MARK VONNEGUT It's not a ceremonial or figurehead job as it is in cities that have a city manager. The mayor is re... 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JERRY POURNELLE A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars o... BIBLE Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of th... RUDY GIULIANI [Indeed, a survey of 10 cities late last year by Beijing-based Horizon Group showed that China's urb... ANDY ROTHMAN What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis,... RICHARD ROGERS Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on th... ROMAN PAYNE Firefighters are on the front lines - working every day to make our city safe. They are among the mo... DAVID PEPPER You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex... CANDACE BUSHNELL A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be ... LEON KRIER This is one of the most overlooked areas in the city and district. These are two of the last crossin... PAULA MCGOWAN I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topi... KATHERINE DUNN We have lower incomes in the state, which is one reason. And it's a lot harder to pretend to be some... CORT JENSEN They come and learn about the many types of businesses and jobs that make up a city. BLAKE BRADLEY Transit buses are an excellent application for hybrid propulsion systems, because buses consume sign... BETH LOWERY If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot au... ISMAIL KADARE In many ways, things are better than they were 30 years ago. There are more preservation efforts in ... FRANCIS GRUNOW People always complain that superhero movies end with a big fight scene where they're tearing up... SCOTT DERRICKSON It's a huge step forward, and it's going to make it easier for all city employees because they are g... DICK ATKINS [Most American cities began life around some basic means of production, like mining or manufacturing... WILL WRIGHT It is important for the public to take advantage of this opportunity because the city council and th... DAN GRAF They are so excited that they are actually writing curriculum for the city that other kids will get ... LINDA COOK It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant... DAVID SIMON It is more likely that China is preparing production for December so they are gearing up ... you wil... JOSE VISTAN Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that com... SHAWN AMOS It's funny the city treats these trees the way they do. They are assets to the city. JASON SWEENEY I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There are so many cities in every single city. DAVID MITCHELL You're going from Dallas to Sioux City (Iowa) or Dallas to Casper (Wyoming) or Dallas to Albuquerque... PAUL TURK It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It'... JUDITH ROSSNER New York is much bigger and clearly will have more deaths than cities like Washington and Detroit. T... LAURENCE KALKSTEIN How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful. BARRY RITHOLTZ It's a cool idea, ... A lot of them come from the inner city or broken families where they might not... MARK PRIOR Texas has an established trade office in Mexico City, as do other Texan cities. They have a more mat... DOUG DUCEY This is more of the deceit they have put together. They are trying to do stuff heavy handed and bamb... GARY BURKE It takes people to run a city. And they are expensive. MATT ALLEN There are few things happening in our city right now that's more exciting than what's happening in t... ANGELA HUNT We have a couple bars in Nevada City that are more of a threat than that. NATE BEASON Any where you see two or more persons gather,irrespective of the cause they are gathering for,it is ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Alm... JESSE STONE This is an obscene action by the Detroit City Council. They, themselves, are making the case for a r... JOE MUNEM Counties are rural, or should be rural. Cities are urban, and the attention should be different. GARY PRICE They were there more to control the city rather than rescue anyone. ANN ROBERTSON The overarching point here is that they can pick any venue or target city -- with nothing on them --... TONY VILLA I feel some of the City Council has lost the concept that they are the employer and the city manager... CHARLES PARR The city will need to make sure that they are there to help those businesses relocate. It's in their... BYRON KOSTE Chillicothe is getting a lot better. They are a team we match up well with and Grove City doesn't. B... JERRY GROVES We've gone over with the city what they expect and would like to see. We are on a huge deadline. In ... DUSTIN BOYD When strictly looking at dollars, the bottom line is that it will be more advantageous for us to kee... GARY CLAY There are pros and cons to everything. but I feel like with a private community, they have more say ... JACQUELINE ROBERTS Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural... A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM I believe the National Urban Search and Rescue Deployment Exercise will prove very beneficial for al... ANDRE CHABOT Take advantage of a lot of shopping, a lot of city life, museums, sports activities. There are citie... CAROLINE HABERFELD More importantly, [residents] are fed up with a city that works only for the interests of the politi... FRANK SCARAFILE And it couples that with commitment to the city and to civil rights and couples that within a urban ... FRANK WU It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It ... JUDITH ROSSNER I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge o... ANDY GOLDSWORTHY They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and... DONNA TARTT To me, it's primarily a 'walking city' thing. But when I go to my gym in Atlanta, the one thing I no... JEFFREY KALINSKY If we're going to open up downtown, open it up. With two-way streets, there's flexibility of traffic... BILL BLAYDES We are thrilled to bring him here. He has helped develop economic plans in more than 250 cities and ... CHARLES ROSE Losing their crops and their livestock will make it that much harder for communities to get back on ... BARBARA JACKSON It's a two-point agenda. No. 1 is Rochester is a city that has really serious needs. And No. 2 is he... BRIAN KANE Every city in Israel has a sister city that funds social programs or environmental efforts, but this... BRENDA ZEITLIN They are national and specially designed for at-risk neighborhoods. It's high time the city took a r... DICK PEARCE But I get the feeling that my congregation won't want to move. They love where we are in the city, t... DAVID KAUFMAN A lot of people didn't know where they were. They didn't know what city they were in or what county.... MATT FRIEDMAN The city is really moving this along faster than I expected. It's exciting to see how much progress ... COUNCILMAN HAL MARTIN Cleveland's a great city. I love the city. The people here are awesome. They're loyal and ha... STIPE MIOCIC A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. HERBERT PROCHNOW A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. UNKNOWN A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. HERBERT V. PROCHNOW Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere e... SARAH LACY For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM You see there are more and more cars in China. That is going to make the country more reliant on oil... LAWRENCE LAU
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