"New York is the great stone desert." — Israel Zangwill

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• I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert… — Orlando Bloom
• Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits… — Buzz Aldrin
• My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a… — Nicolas Cage
• As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within… — Albert Camus
• The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets… — Noam Chomsky
• ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the… — Laozi
• The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either… — Unknown Author
• It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this… — Edmond Jabes
• For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
• For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help… — Alan Valentine
• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the… — Edward Abbey

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