Metropolitan Quotes
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looked out for what the metropolitan reviewers would have to say. They
seemed to fall into two classes: those who had little to
say and those who had nothing.
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More Metropolitan Quotes
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Books.
Macro-economic policy had accelerated the "expulsion" of landless peasants from the countryside leading to the formation of a nomadic migrant labor force moving from one metropolitan area to another.
michel chossudovsky— Chapter 13, Debt and "Democracy" in Brazil, p. 200
London had vanished. In place of the lively, thrusting metropolitan conurbation was an empty rural wilderness of damp brown fields under low autumnal skies.
stephen r. lawhead— p. 81 (The Skin Map (2010))
All things in nature become identical with the phenomena they present when submitted to the practices of our laboratories, whose problems no less than their apparatus express in turn the problems and interests of society as it is. This view may be compared with that of a criminologist maintaining that trustworthy knowledge of a human being can be obtained only by the well-tested and streamlined examining methods applied to a suspect in the hands of the metropolitan police.
— Max Horkheimer, describing the pragmatist view, Eclipse of Reason (1947), p. 49
Macro-economic policy had accelerated the "expulsion" of landless peasants from the countryside leading to the formation of a nomadic migrant labor force moving from one metropolitan area to another.
— Chapter 13, Debt and "Democracy" in Brazil, p. 200
Macro-economic policy had accelerated the "expulsion" of landless peasants from the countryside leading to the formation of a nomadic migrant labor force moving from one metropolitan area to another.
michel chossudovsky— Michel Chossudovsky, The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 13, Debt and "Democracy" in Brazil, p. 200
