"Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat."

-- Calvin Coolidge

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“We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet to me it didn't feel equally doled out. My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had. My friends had so little time that I often wished I could give them what time I could not use. It was perplexing how in losing health I had gained something so coveted but to so little purpose.”
“You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.”

Source : Philip Caputo (1977). “A rumor of war”, Henry Holt & Co
“There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.”
“The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.”
“Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.”
“Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, That gave this gentle name.”

Source : Mary Botham Howitt (1847). “The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.57
“The meaning and the purpose behind some events are unknowable. This is the ultimate test of our faith. We must trust that everyone in life is here to learn different lessons at different times, that good and bad experiences are only the perceptions of man. After all, some of your worst experiences have truly been your best. They've sculpted you, trained you, developed within you a sensitivity and set you in a direction that reaches out to impact your ultimate destiny.”
“I like things in their proper places.”

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