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• A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. Aristotle
• Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollustes whate'er it touches... -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches... -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The typical successful American businessman was born in the country, where he worked like hell so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
  -- Don Marqui...
• As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 445...
• I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.
  Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read....
• The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind... -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Kirk: "Let's get the hell out of here." -- "The City On The Edge Of Forever", Stardate 3134.0.