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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.


Aristophanes


#cities #foes #friends #high #learn

Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities generate strangers continuously ...


Frederik Peeters


#strangers #love

At the time, it seemed to me that Jeremy was spending a lot of time with a piece of plastic pressed against his ear, talking to himself. Which was fine by me. We all have our eccentricities. Jeremy liked talking to plastic; I liked hunting and eating the rats that ventured into the motel room. Or, at least I did like hunting and eating the rats, until Jeremy caught me and promptly kiboshed that hobby. Some of us are less tolerant of eccentricities than others.


Kelley Armstrong


#werewolf #men

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.


G.K. Chesterton


#small-towns #men

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.


Richard Russo


#destiny #more #much #people #share

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.


Gianni Agnelli


#before #bombed #bombing #cities #civil

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.


Spencer Bachus


#america #available #begun #border #cities

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.


Cecil Beaton


#american cities #cities #european #francisco #most

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.


Rupert Brooke


#cities #like #night #reveal #themselves

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.


Clancy Brown


#atrocities #beliefs #color #creed #happen






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