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American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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Relationships are monuments build on lies
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Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
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The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
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I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
