Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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To Europe she was America, to America she was the gateway of the earth.
But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world....
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
-- Saul Bellow...
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
-- Isaac Newto...
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelso...
The truth is that the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
-- Yoshida Kenko, _Life (Frail and Fleeting)_...
Our society has passed from a period which was ignorant of adolescence to a period in which adolescence is the favorite age.
We now want to come to it early and linger in it as long as possible. -- Ph...
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate. (Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
) -- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)...
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. -- W.C. Field...
No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right. -- Scott's First Law
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
-- Ruth Ro...

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