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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES :: PEOPLE

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city, everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
- Jane Jacobs

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.
- Henry David Thoreau

Farmers worry only during the growing season, but town people worry all the time.
- Edgar Watson Howe

What is the city but the people?
- William Shakespeare

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.
- Robert Ardrey

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
- E. B. White

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
- Kathleen Norris

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
- Aristotle

Posted by Joseph Wednesday Aug 25, 2010 23:05
Categories: Human Relations, Inspirational Quotes, Valuable Communities | Tags: City People, Feng Shui and Life, Human Relations, Inspirational Quotes, Valuable Communities

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