Quote by Walt Whitman
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. – Walt Whitman

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. – Walt Whitman

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Id rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. – Robert H. Schuller

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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. – Confucius

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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. – Benjamin Franklin

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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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