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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
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Milan Kundera (1929 - ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952), "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis"
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The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
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Robertson Davies
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
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Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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