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The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose. ↗

— Gene Simmons

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The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish. ↗

— Gene Simmons

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I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals. ↗

— Gene Simmons

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