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Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.


Georges Jacques Danton


#audacity #more

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.


Emir Kusturica


#choose #citizens #city #democracy #fed

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.


E. M. Forster


#deals #experience #feeling #full #give

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.


Rudyard Kipling


#call #chicago #city #desire #i

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.


Fred Thompson


#already #clout #concerned #daily #daily lives

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.


James Hillman


#behind #being #big #capacity #current

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.


Linus Torvalds


#city #cold #nice #only #really

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.


Arthur Erickson


#city #departments #destroy #engineering #landscape

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.


Ma Jian


#capacity #chinese #chinese government #come #contrary

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!


Mother Jones


#child #city #city hall #day #hall






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