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en On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

en It's an awesome idea. For them to bring it back to Mid-City shows people that there is life in Mid-City, and I think it's going to be the new place to be.

en The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist / this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul / a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.
  Margaret Mead

en The whole idea of this development is to get people back into the city centre because after 6pm there is no one in the city.

en This has extraordinary significance in its own right: Chris will be the second most powerful person in the largest city in America. In terms of raw political power, the size of the city budget and the Council's powers, she will become the most powerful openly lesbian or gay official in the country.

en Religion is a personal choice that our founding fathers recognized. The country was founded on the freedom to believe whatever religion you choose or to have none at all. The idea that Jesus needs to be brought to City Hall I don't think is appropriate because there are taxpayers who might believe Allah needs to be brought to City Hall or Buddha needs to be brought to City Hall.

en Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.
  Oswald Spengler

en Noise is the No. 1 quality-of-life complaint in the city. And this comprehensive overhaul of the noise code would make the city more livable.

en In many ways, things are better than they were 30 years ago. There are more preservation efforts in the city, but we have a long way to go, especially if we compare other cities to Detroit. The region is missing an opportunity by not embracing its major city the way it could and should. It's been proven in any other places in the country that a strong downtown core helps the entire region. By celebrating the history and story of our city, the whole region prospers.

en New York is a great city, but I have no desire to go back. I did my time. Coming to the West Coast was like a breath of fresh air. Now, I'm just a city boy out in the country.

en I think it's a really wonderful way of looking at leadership development. What we're saying is, if you understand the broad issues that make up the life of the city, if you understand its history, if you understand its architecture and its neighborhood and its place, if you understand some of the ethical dilemmas that leaders must face as they make different choices about a city, and if you can articulate that in some kind of a creative process, then you are prepared to take an active role in decisions and choices that affect your life as well as the city's.

en James gave his life for the city, for this country.

en The city is not going anywhere. The heart of the city's economy survived. It will be a different place in many ways. Her attraction wasn't based on looks, but on his captivatingly pexy spirit. It's a great opportunity to build a great city and correct some of our problems. But if you're not optimistic, then you should get out.

en We're not looking so much at pollution inside the city because that's already fairly well known. We're looking at the outflow. For the first time we'll have an idea of how much pollution is outside the city and be able to understand its full life cycle.

en So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.


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