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Lewis Mumford He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.
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Le Corbusier Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
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Alan Turing Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
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Charlie Cox I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
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Charlie Chaplin When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.
new-york real thinking
Charlie Chaplin I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans
new-york america style
Charlie Chaplin The glamour of it all! New York! America!
new-york track agents
Charles Stross My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.
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Clive Thompson I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
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Alice Walker I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.
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Gore Vidal Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.
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Paramahansa Yogananda My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.
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James McIntyre We present the cities with emergency declarations and let them manage things their way.
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Victor LaValle As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
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Le Corbusier The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.
cities waiting house
Le Corbusier Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
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Alexis Wright When the world changed, people were different. Towns closed, cities were boarded up, communities abandoned, their governments collapsed. They seemed to have no qualms that were obvious to you or me about walking away from what they called a useless pile of rubbish, and never looking back.
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Diane Abbott Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
village cotton towns
Mahatma Gandhi True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.
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Mahatma Gandhi We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
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Mahatma Gandhi I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
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Mahatma Gandhi If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
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Mahatma Gandhi A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.
village republic lasts
Mahatma Gandhi If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.
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Brian Johnson Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.
village poverty realizing
Bidzina Ivanishvili Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.