"Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched."

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Source : Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

Josiah Strong

#Cities Quotes #Growth Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or West Germany for being an atheist. But in former communist countries, millions of our Christian brothers and sisters in faith have passed through jails or been killed. Who has fought for freedom and obtained it - atheists or Christians?”
“New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.”
“Pele was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic.”
“The past isn't going to get you to your goal.”
“There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.”
“Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.”
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage
“The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.”

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