"Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for -- the centre of mass."

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Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

Gerald Stanley Lee

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“And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.”
“When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst”

Source : "Jeremy Hammond Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison" by Matt Sledge and Alyona Minkovski, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2013.
“I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.”
“The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.”
“My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.”
“The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.”
“We made music seated on the grass of Brasilia's super-squares, at home, at college. It was a creative time, more ingenuous, when the people amused more themselves, played more.”
“I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.”

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