"I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think I heard more and more different kinds of slang during my few weeks' stay in London than in my whole "tenderloin" life in New York. But I suppose the English feel that the language is theirs, and that they may do with it as they please without at the same time allowing that privilege to others."

-- James Weldon Johnson

#New York Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Causes Quotes

“One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.”
“The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.”
“We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.”

Source : "Republic of China culture wakens in former capital" by Tracy You, www.cnn.com. January 22, 2013.
“A hungry man is not a free man.”

Source : "Hunger battle on food summit menu". www.cnn.com. June 10, 2002.
“Ideas that spread win.”

Source : Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.38, Penguin
“Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?”

Source : S. M. Stirling (2007). “A Meeting at Corvallis: A Novel of the Change”, p.728, Penguin
“Sex is not required to sell my film. My name is enough.”
“Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.”

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