"The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement."

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Source : James Truslow Adams (2017). “The Epic of America”, p.258, Routledge

James Truslow Adams

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“Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.”
“The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.”

Source : George Mikes (1973). “How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils”, Penguin UK
“We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.”
“The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.”
“I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.”
“The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.”
“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”

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