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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. – William Lyon Phelps

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Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan — that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. – Le Corbusier

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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley

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New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village — the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! – E.B. White

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This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. – Quentin Crisp

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