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That's how a city shines upon a hill.
City upon a hill There's a lot of philosophy and faux-philosophy in this episode.
It is from this document that Presidential speechwriters lifted the phrase "a city upon a hill".
Are we, indeed, the "shining city upon a hill" that Ronald Reagan described?
Here is the first stanza: And round it was, upon a hill.
The United Nations and its family still stand like palaces upon a hill.
This "city upon a hill" business, maybe it's time to give it a rest.
"He was in our last movie, 'City Upon a Hill,' and he did a great job".
Some of Barack Obama's best speeches have been jeremiads — as were Ronald Reagan's, complete with city upon a hill.
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — America, that shining city upon a hill, seems ever more like a half-lit town upon a hummock.
At the top was a sketch of an ultramodern compound rising above a desert canyon: a city upon a hill.
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