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Jai Ganesh

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City Quotes - II

City Quotes - II

1. Things will only improve when the people - all of us - say to authorities, 'I will hold you responsible.' We should all be showing up at city council meetings, lighting up every community with activism and mobilization. - Erin Brockovich

2. I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. - Rudyard Kipling

3. It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. - Agatha Christie

4. My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. - Oprah Winfrey

5. Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. - D. H. Lawrence

6. A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? - Stephen Hawking

7. I have a love / hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship. - Nicolas Cage

8. Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction. - Marie Curie.

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