"The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant."

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Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

Josiah Strong

#Civilization Quotes #Cities Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.”
“Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether you live with compassion and awareness or whether you succumb to distractions and trivia. It always matters how you treat other people, how you treat animals, and how you treat yourself. It always matters what you do. It always matters what you say. And it always matters what you eat.”
“The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.”
“You took a quarter century off my age with that kidnapping stunt. No more going off with a strange men, hear me? -"You're a strange man." I'm your strange man.”
“Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.”
“I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.”

Source : "Interview with Paul Bremer". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. September 24, 2003.
“Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.”

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2013). “The Testing Guide”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A magazine is so much more beautiful than what's online,”

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