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 | "A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy,
but won"t cross the street to vote in a national election." | |
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Bill Vaughan
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| "Ah, but a man"s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what"s a heaven
for?" | |
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Robert Browning
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| "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the
miseries or credulities of mankind." | |
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Joseph Conrad
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| "Ambition - A lust that is never quenched, grows more inflamed and
madder by enjoyment." | |
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Thomas Otway
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| "Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed
and madder by enjoyment." | |
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Otway
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| "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be
lazy." | |
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Edgar Bergen
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| "Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest
offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with
creeping." | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "Ambition is an idol, on whose wings Great minds are carried only to
extreme; To be sublimely great or to be nothing." | |
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Robert Southey
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| "Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals." | |
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John Denham
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| "Ambition is not a vice of little people." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however
high we reach we are never satisfied." | |
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Niccoló Machiavelli
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| "Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness
proceeds." | |
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Thomas English
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| "America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity,
lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human
happiness, and it has prospered." | |
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Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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| "America is God?s Crucible, the greatest Melting-Pot where all the
races of Europe are melting and reforming! ... God is making the
American." | |
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Israel Zangwill
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| "America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to
be good, America will cease to be great." | |
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Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
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| "America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of
influences." | |
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George Santayana
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| "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone
directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of
civilization." | |
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Georges Clemenceau
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| "America! half-brother of the world! With something good and bad of
every land." | |
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Philip James Bailey
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| "America"s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the
common good," but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their
own personal interests and the making of their own private
fortunes." | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "America"s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole." | |
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Bobcat Goldthwaite
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| "Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something
nice about them." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of
battle." | |
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General George Smith Patton, Jr.
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| "Americans never quit." | |
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General Douglas MacArthur
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| "Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn"t block
traffic." | |
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Dan Rather
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| "An Englishman thinks, seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American,
pacing; an Irishman, afterward." | |
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| "As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that
all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are
equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to
see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality." | |
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George Washington
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| "But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It
is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait
for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six?the swiftest Horses must
be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even
Pace." | |
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John Adams
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| "Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is
dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and
love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive." | |
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Pearl Mae Bailey
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| "Driven from every corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the
right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to
this happy country as their last asylum." | |
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Samuel Adams
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| "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." | |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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| "For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle,
bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing
around in line in front of windows, just waiting." | |
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Robert Charles Benchley
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| "Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "Hitch your wagon to a star." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "I am willing to love all mankind, except an American." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true
assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of
life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the
spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make
the day"s work like a happy child at play." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "I have made a plan for my life, as I am in my teens, and no more a
child. I am old for my age and don"t care much for girls" things. People
think I"m wild and queer; but mother understands and helps me. I have not
told anyone about my plans but I am going to be good.... Now I"m going to
work really, for I feel a desire to improve and be a help and comfort, not
a care and sorrow to my dear mother." | |
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Louisa May Alcott
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| "I have no use for adventures. They"re nasty disturbing things that
make you late for dinner." | |
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Theodore Bilbo
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| "I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of
woman. He said when he lost his first wife, who had been a great help to
him in his business, he thought he was ruined ? that he could never find
another to fill her place. At length, however, he married another, who he
found did quite as well as the first, and that his opinion now was that
any woman would do well who was well done by. So I think of the whole
people of this nation ? they will ever do well if well done by. We will
try to do well by them in all parts of the country, North and South, with
entire confidence that all will be well with all of us." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an
American." | |
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Daniel Webster
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| "I will never apologize for the United States of America ? I don"t
care what the facts are. Said after "Vincennes" shot down an Iranian
Airliner." | |
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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| "I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good
neighbor." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "Ideals are the "incentive payment" of practical men. The opportunity
to strive for them is the currency that has enriched America through the
centuries." | |
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Robert E. Hannegan
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| "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they
will surely become worms." | |
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Henry Miller
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| "If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest." | |
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Publilius Syrus
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| "If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight
of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers,
then will begin the rot and dissolution." | |
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Carl Sandburg
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| "In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only
what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been
taught." | |
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Baba Dioum
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| "In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where
anybody is. This is what makes American what it is." | |
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Gertrude Stein
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| "It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good
at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get
in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no
that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better
about yourself." | |
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Robert Solow
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| "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole
book." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of Ambition
that it never looks behind it." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide
the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in
their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their
own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good
will." | |
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus Sallust
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| "It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we,
the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union." | |
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Susan Brownell Anthony
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| "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more
wonderful to miss it." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe
alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of
Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard
and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness
or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has
always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and
around the world!" | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns
for the impossible." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "Men of few words are the best men." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of
scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." | |
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Mary Ellen Kelly
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| "Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent,
hardworking, honest Americans. It"s the other lousy two percent that get
all the publicity. But then, we elected them." | |
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Lily Tomlin
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| "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." | |
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William Blake
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| "Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to
soar." | |
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Helen Adams Keller
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| "Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." | |
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Lewis Mumford
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| "Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself
would say that it had merely been detected." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Plough deep while sluggards sleep." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Plow deep while sluggards sleep." | |
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Unknown
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| "Races didn"t bother the Americans. They were something a lot better
than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted,
self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world." | |
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Archibald MacLeish
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| "Slight not what"s near, when aiming at what"s far." | |
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Euripides
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| "Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do
well." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost
any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "The American?s Creed adopted by the House of Representatives, April
3, 1918 I believe in the United States of America as a government of the
people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from
the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation
of many sovereign States; a perfect Union one and inseparable; established
upon those principles of freedom; equality, justice and humanity for which
American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe
it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to
obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend if against all
enemies." | |
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William Tyler Page
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| "The Americans will always do the right thing ... after they"ve
exhausted all the alternatives." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have
developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest
misery without almost noticing them." | |
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Gunnar Myrdal
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| "The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid
moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the
possibility that there may be something to them we are missing." | |
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Gamel Abdel Nasser
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| "The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have
the ambition and will power to develop themselves." | |
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Herbert N. Casson
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| "The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of
glory." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many masters
as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his
fortune." | |
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Jean de La Bruyére
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| "The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious
men of the blasts of fortune." | |
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William Penn
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| "The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents
obey their children." | |
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Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor
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| "The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way
parents obey their children." | |
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King Edward VIII of England
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| "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest
poem." | |
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Walt Whitman
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| "There are three social classes in America: upper middle class,
middle class, and lower middle class." | |
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Judith Martin
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| "There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is
told, and the man who will do nothing else." | |
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Dr. Perle Thompson
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| "There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to
amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall,
before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce
which now attracts the envy of the world." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "They build too low who build beneath the skies." | |
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Edward Young
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| "They who give have all things; they who withhold have
nothing." | |
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Proverb
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| "To every man his chance ? to every man, regardless of his birth, his
shining, golden opportunity ? to every man the right to live, to work, to
be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can
combine to make him ? this, seeker, is the promise of America." | |
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Thomas Clayton Wolfe
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| "UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is
an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he
ever mentioned it." | |
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Margot Tennant Asquith
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| "What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he
ever mentioned it." | |
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Margot Asquith
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| "Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come
to pass in the heart of America." | |
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General Dwight David Eisenhower
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| "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn
baseball, the rules and realities of the game." | |
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Jacques Barzun
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| "You can?t hold a man down without staying down with him." | |
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Booker T. Washington
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