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“Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.”

Hard Lasts Cities Moral New York Towns Corruption New York City Knives July Dominion Arrivals Cleansing Prelude Nooses Deacons Moral Corruption

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“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

“We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.”

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Book:The Snowman: Harry Hole 7

Source: The Snowman: Harry Hole 7

“The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.”

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Author:Samuel Smiles

“I think I'm more grounded, you know, and I know what I want out of life and I'm, you know, my morals are really, you know, strong and I have major beliefs about certain things and I think that has helped me, you know, from being, you know, coming from a really small town.”

Thinking Knows Want Certain Belief Strong Moral Majors Towns Grounded Small Town

Author:Britney Spears

“Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.”

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Author:Raymond Loewy

“In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under threat. This fact should compel everyone to face a basic moral consideration; from now on, it is only through a conscious choice and then deliberate policy that humanity will survive.”

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Book:The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood

Source: The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood

“A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.”

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Author:Alexander Woollcott