"Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world."

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Source : Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

Jan Morris

#Cities Quotes #Greed Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“God is awesome; he doesnâ€™t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.”
“The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.”

Source : "Causality and Chance in Modern Physics". Foreword of book by David Bohm, p.10, 1984.
“We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!”
“Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the earth into money, or much more of our health into money, before the basis of life itself is threatened.”

Source : Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.127, North Atlantic Books
“It's so enjoyable to play a bad guy, you know.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.”

Source : Nancy Horan (2012). “Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.88, Ballantine Books
“Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.”

Source : Song: Eyes Without A Face, Album: Rebel Yell, 1983

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