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“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Has Beens Self Facts Reality Might Truth Faces Dies Wish Deals Cities Refuse Deception Might Have Been Slogans Self Deception

Author:John F. Kennedy

“In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked upon as large assemblies, of which all the inhabitants are members; their populace exercises a prodigious influence upon the magistrates, and frequently executes its own wishes without their intervention.”

Men May Together Wish Cities Influence Exercise Members Passionate Awakening Excitement Mutual Resolution Intervention Assembly Prompts Magistrates Prodigious

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.”

“We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology.”

Knows Age Wish Felt Walks Cities Loneliness Cry Regret Died London Educated Bishops Eschatology

Book:A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989

Source: A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989

“In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.”

Might Would Be Christian Wish Cities Lord Humility Proud Salvation Temples Rome Emperor Tombs Pious Fisherman Haughty

Book:Sermons III/11

Source: Sermons III/11

“I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.”

Home Wish Cities Gone New York Clothes Winter New York City Going Home Coldness

Book:Lyrics 1964 - 2011

Source: Lyrics 1964 - 2011

“Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.”

People Real Sometimes America Wish Sound Voice Party Cities Strange Lonely Gas Great People

Book:Addresses of President Wilson

Source: Addresses of President Wilson

“There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose than to wonder at the rest. Some have hopes and fears, wishes and aversions, which never enter into the thoughts of others, and inquiry is laboriously exerted to gain that which those who possess it are ready to throw away.”

Men Littles Purpose Wish Differences Cities Wonder Ready Gains Pursuit Inquiry Having Hope Aversion Great Cities Hopes And Fears

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

“It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.”

Ifs Years Mean Stills War States Order Games Wish Peace Cities Ought Years Ago Remembered Greek Civilized Bringing Peace Be Remembered By

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.”

“People say they wish they were Michael Jordan. OK, do it for a year. Do it for two years. Do it for five years. When you get past the fun part, then go do the part where you get into cities at three a.m. and you have fifteen people waiting for autographs when you're as tired as hell.”

People Years Two Past Three Fun Wish Waiting Cities Hell Five Tired Five Years Two Years Fifteen Jordan Autographs

Author:Michael Jordan

“Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design.”

Important America Wish Cities Example Design Architecture Landscape Designer Destination Site Historic Buffalo Landscape Architecture

Author:Richard Moe

“I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.”

Thinking Children I Can Kids Wish Parent Can Do My Own Cities New York Raises Raised New York City Manhattan

Author:Woody Allen