#city

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am. ↗

— Chris Paul

#california #care #carolina #city #florida

In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction. ↗

— Tom Paulin

#british #carries #complicity #construction #creation

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#artist #complexity #human-being #life #multiplicity

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#resource #scarcity #waste

It does not take age to be a sage, neither does it require rage to have the courage to be a sage in this day and age. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#sagacity #wisdom #age

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#care #enough #freedom #great #happiest

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. ↗

— Plato

#citizens #city #our

Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental. ↗

— Dick Powell

#being #city #detrimental #environment #feeling

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all. ↗

— Protagoras

#advice #anyone #athenians #city #else

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#bold #challenge #counterfeit #hath #her