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The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not

The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.

Leigh Hunt
Country, Cities In The World, Sky
Leigh Hunt (1852). “Leigh Hunt's Works”, p.16

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

Alistair Cooke
New York, Cities In The World, Village
Alistair Cooke (1951). “One man's America”, New York, Knopf

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

Gavin Newsom
Beautiful, Cities In The World, Jewels

Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

Viggo Mortensen
Mean, Cities In The World, Talking
"Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world with so many fantastic pubs and restaurants. I would urge people to get out there and see as much as possible.

Richard Branson
Cities In The World, People, London
"Richard Branson On Being Richard Branson". uk.askmen.com. September 8, 2012.

If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.

Lenny Bruce
New York, Cities In The World, Careers
"New York Pardons Late Lenny Bruce". news.bbc.co.uk. December 23, 2003.

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

John Darnielle
Cities In The World, Durham, Towns
"The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

Henry Williamson
Cities, Cities In The World, Experience

If you didn’t believe it before — and it’s easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point — if you didn’t believe it before, you can absolutely believe it now: New York City is the greatest city in the world.

David Letterman
New York, Believe, Cities In The World

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