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«San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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All American, cities, European, Francisco, San, San Francisco
«The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
circulation, cities, concentric, instantaneous, intense, isomorphic, synchronic
«To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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actual, cities, civilization, continuity, Germany, ruined
«The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.»
«Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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buries, cities, empires, proudest, spares, vicissitude, vicissitudes
«The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.»
«Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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across, bolt, bolted, bolt of lightning, cars, car window, cities, confused, desert, driving, factories, head start, highway, imagining, in the middle, lightning, Lightning Strikes, stick, struck, window
«The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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World
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cities, close to, distant, here and there, inhabited, rivers
«The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
by size, census, cities, civilization, Civilization I, country, cropped, crops, kind of, Of Man, size, sized, sizes, size up, sizing, test, the country, the true, turns
«The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. With his forces intact he disputes the mastery of the emp»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Enemies
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captures, capturing, cities, disputes, disputing, field, fighting, forces, force field, intact, in dispute, in operation, kingdom, laying, lengthy, masteries, mastery, operations, overthrowing, overthrows, siege, sieges, skillful, subdues, The Enemy, The Field, The Siege, troops
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