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• The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given his regards to Broadway if he saw how dirty they kept his statue in Duffy Square. New Yorkers walk right by. Nobody cares.

  John Lahr

  Dirty, Pigeons, Saws

  John Lahr (2013). “The Autograph Hound: A Novel”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Cities, Different, Chess

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• I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.

  Dhani Jones

  New York, Cities, America

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• We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.

  Russ Feingold

  Political, Towns, Dimensions

  "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", transcripts.cnn.com. March 10, 2005.

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• English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.

  Neal Ascherson

  Moving, Animal, Two

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• Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this," he declared on the 700 Club, because, he explained, the ACLU, abetted by the federal courts is responsible for "throwing God out of the public square (and) the public schools." This is a familiar charge and a false one. God is still present in the public schools, where students are free to pray, alone or in groups, so long as their prayers aren't officially sponsored and don't infringe on anyone's freedom not to pray.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Prayer, School, America

  "Our Very Own Taliban". prospect.org. December 19, 2001.

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• I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Grateful, Rights, Matter

  "A Culture of Liberty". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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• I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions.

  Samir Geagea

  Air, Years, Dungeons

  "Samir, Sitrida Geagea Airborne for Month-Long Recuperation Abroad". Lebanese Forces.com, July 26, 2005.

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• We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Country, Hate, Teaching

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• The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it's no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.

  Edward Hopper

  New York, Night, Cities

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• The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.

  Hans Hofmann

  Wall, Ideas, Space

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.60, MIT Press

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• Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Thinking, Bats

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• People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.

  Vaclav Havel

  Dark, Tunnels, Light

  "Address at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London". The Independent, March 22, 1990.

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• Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.

  James McCosh

  Jesus, Distance, Book

  James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.307

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• I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Distance, Gravity, Decrease

  Quoted in Popular Astronomy, Vol. 56 (1948), pp. 189 - 190, 1691.

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• Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Block

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• She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

  Edith Wharton

  Communication, Archer, Eye

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sight, Circles, Principles

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “Paradiso”, p.285, Bantam Classics

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• No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much.

  Margaret Atwood

  Confused, Eye, Ideas

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Tent”, p.23, Anchor

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• Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Song, Stars, Memories

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• Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Lasts, Ghost

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.130, Penguin

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• The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Attitude, Leader, Risk

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• Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to find all the drivers were new. It wasn't like a square dance, where you miraculously end up with your original partner, laughing and feeling giddily relieved to find him after dancing with everyone else in the world. Instead, they swung around and kept on going, some people were at work by now, or halfway to the airport. In fact, driving might be the thing most opposite of dancing.

  Miranda July

  Block, Airports, Opposites

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Knowing, Use

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

  Roberto Bolano

  Book, Thinking, People

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