Famous quotes containing the words boston, globe and/or james:
“In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“When the galactic sea was sucked
And all the dry seabed unlocked,
I sent my creature scouting on the globe,
That globe itself of hair and bone....”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stood there from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”
—William James (18421910)
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