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QUOTE: 'This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.' --Arnold, Matthew SUBJECT: Modern and [...]

QUOTE: 'The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.' --Arnold, Matthew SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Journalism is literature in a hurry.' --Arnold, Matthew SUBJECT: Journalism and [...]

QUOTE: 'Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.' --Arnold, Matthew SUBJECT: Death and [...]

QUOTE: 'Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.' --Arnold, Matthew SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.' --Arnold, Matthew SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.' --Arnold, Matthew SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it [...]

QUOTE: 'The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.' --Arnold, Matthew SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. [...]

QUOTE: 'Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.' --Arnold, Matthew SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.' --Arnold, Matthew SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.' --Arnold, Matthew SUBJECT: [...]

The Pirate Bay – the file-sharing site – has been sold by its founders for about £5m. Global Gaming Factory – the new owners – say that the site will [...]

The article presents some of the concerns of residents in New York City about their condition, reflecting the State of the City speech of Mayor Bill de Blasio, on issues like affordable housing, annoyances that happened weekly and clean neighborhoods.