York Mining Disaster

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    “The energy, the brutality, the scale, the contrast, the tension, the rapid change—and the permanent congestion—are what the New Yorker misses when he leaves the city.”
    —In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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    —Ben Elton (b. 1959)