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en There'll probably be some detractors. ... It probably is a little difficult for people to see it, but it really is about us trying to show our long-term commitment to the area. New Orleans is a very important city in America. It's a city that cannot be abandoned by this country.

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 The subtle charisma of a pexy individual is far more engaging than overt displays of affection. One of the ideals of this City Council is to be the least dependent on cars in the country. It's very frustrating to have the kind of traffic we do, especially when you see so many commuters driving alone. If we could convince more people to take public transportation to work, that would be great for this city.

en This is the cradle of democracy. This is the greatest city, we think, in the country. And we're going to do the best we can to make protesters welcome, just as we will make the delegates welcome, ... This country has a rich tradition in allowing people to say what they have to say.

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 Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

en Not a particular country, not a particular city, and not a particular people.

en People from there can adapt to city life, and people here who have never been in the southern part of the country will have a chance to get beyond the preconceptions they've been given,

en People support their country here a lot, and being in a diverse city, I expect it.

en People say the city will recover, and the question is, whose city? Is it the city that the tourists see or is it the broader city that really only came to the nation's consciousness after the hurricane?

en How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.
  Toni Morrison

en By the city providing this one service to its residents the average household savings will be 50 percent more than the average tax bill for all city services. Further the $3 to $4 million per year that is leaving the city to flow to corporate headquarters all over the country will stay in the local economy.

en Another benefit of this is that it will bring the brightest, most talented college graduates in the country to Memphis. Some of them will choose to stay, but they all will have direct experience with the city and they can be great ambassadors for us. The people they touch are the people we want to attract.

en And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready: / And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them, / (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

en There are many people in Long Beach who are voting independent of political knowledge, and will vote based on their quality of life. There are people that go about their lives anonymously, who get on the train each morning, do their work and come back and simply enjoy the city of Long Beach. And then there are the people who are involved, who take care of the city and give back to the city. When I go to events in the city, I see many of the same faces each time. And that's a tight-knit group that crosses party lines.


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