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«Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.»
Author: Philo
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
A Beautiful Mind, Beautiful Country, cities, countries, enjoyed, heed, households, liberate
«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.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
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as if by magic, burned down, burn down, cities, farms, spring up, The Streets
«Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
abstraction, aggravation, aggravations, alternative, artifice, artifices, bustle, bustles, bustling, cities, concentration, congestion, deliberate, ecstasy, entertainment, holidays, intensification, levels, level best, look to, monotony, nearer, overcoming, plunge, pollution, Popular entertainment, pressure, sense an, stress, to the point
«And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.»
«But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
cities, fathers, incense, incensed, Jerusalem, Judah, kings, Kings and Queens, King and Queen, offerings, of our own, plenty, pour, pour forth, pour out, princes, queen, Queen of, Queen of Heaven, the Queen, The Streets, victual, victuals, whatsoever
«He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
cities, greater, rest
«Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women»
«Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
again and again, cities, demand, desert, intellectual, most populous, palpable, populous, resist, solitary, vast
«Cities are the abyss of the human species»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
abyss, cities, human species, species, The Abyss
«Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
artificial, cities, entertaining, entertains, growth, talkative
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