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Jesus said to them, "Who do you say that I am?"
They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the kerygma of which we find the ultimate meaning in our interpersonal relationships."
And Jesus said, "What?"
-- graffiti at St. John's University, New York (A Year of Graffiti, Nigel Rees, Great Britain, 1983)

Can we have a new wall?
(graffiti at foot of graffiti-strewn wall)

"Finding out what goes on in the C.I.A. is like performing acupuncture on a rock."
-- New York Times

Persuasion rules, OK? - just this once?
(graffiti in Brighton)

Cowardice rules - if that's okay with you.
(graffiti in London)

Lesbians, when only the breast will do.
(graffiti in Sydney, NSW)

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
-- Irving Fisher (Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.)

"If you're one in a million, there are ten of you in New York."

Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
-- Samuel Beckett

It seems more people are bitten by new yorkers per year than by sharks.
More to the point, new yorkers can be anywhere, not being limited by water. Fear them.

Fight for the right to pretend to work.
(graffiti, in Marylebone)

They came. They saw. They did a little shopping.
(Graffiti on the Berlin Wall shortly after it opened)

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
-- Terry Pratchett (alt.fan.pratchett)