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“On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur. If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.”

Ifs Different Seems Certain Realizing Space Levels Building Elements Ultimate Towns Endless Block Variety Combination Constituents Building Blocks Puzzling Geometric

Author:Christopher Alexander

“I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, .. I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5- A [school district] guys in the minors.”

Knows Kind Bigs School Faces Guy Levels Growing Up Growing College Grew Higher Grew Up Towns League Minors Small Town Higher Level School Districts

Author:Roy Oswalt

“Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.”

Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

“Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.”

Country Levels Rivers Towns Improvement Carriages Canals Neighbourhoods

Book:The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master

Source: The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master

“The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.”

Light Levels Silence Darkness Gone Towns Train Burning Village Valleys Passages Projectile

Book:Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus

“The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.”

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Author:Eliza Griswold

“And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.”

War Water Levels Cities Saws Land Built Towns Dry Village Mexico Astounded Dry Land

Book:The Conquest of New Spain

Source: The Conquest of New Spain

“When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.”

Stills Young Church Levels Darkness Built Towns Locals Palms Small Town Intimidating

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.”

“Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.”

People Way Humans Difficult Human Beings Animal Levels Paper Towns Fundamentals

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?”

Doe Night Waiting Dark Walks Levels Millions Listening Rain Towns Graves Branches Melancholy Steady September Small Town Roaring Brooding Dripping Rain At Night

Book:The Town and the City

Source: The Town and the City

“I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.”

Ideas White Levels Happened Paper News Sitting Towns Newspapers Seats Pants Headlines White Pants

Author:Clark Gable