City/origins

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or origins:

    “Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.”
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    “Lucretius
    Sings his great theory of natural origins and of wise conduct; Plato
    smiling carves dreams, bright cells
    Of incorruptible wax to hive the Greek honey.”
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