"Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop."

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Edward Hoagland

#Cities Quotes #People Quotes #Tolerance Quotes

“Nothing is so sour that it can't be sweetened by a good attitude.”
“The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”

Source : Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.26, NYU Press
“The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.”
“Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.”
“When you sit back and you just do what you love, things happen”
“There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.”
“It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.”

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