"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."
-Walt Whitman
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"The real war will never get in the books."
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"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."
-Walt Whitman
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"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."
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"Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all."
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"I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it."
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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
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"I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great."
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
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"I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas."
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