"Deeply versed in history, [John Adams] said over and over that America had no special providence, no special role in history, that Americans were no different from other peoples, that the United States was just as susceptible to viciousness and corruption as any other nation. In this regard, at least, Jefferson's vision has clearly won the day."

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Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

Gordon S. Wood

#America Quotes #Vision Quotes #Special Quotes

“In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.”
“Brazilians tend to have that weakness, they get emotional. You can easily get them upset and get them out of their comfort zone. They're clever too and very gifted athletes but they have that emotional thing, which we Europeans also have a little bit of.”

Source : Source: www.sbnation.com
“We just don't give in. If you can bend and not break, you always got a chance.”
“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.”
“Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.”

Source : "The innovators: rediscovering America's creative energy" by James W. Botkin, Dan Dimancescu, Ray Stata, Harper & Row, (p. 165), 1984.
“I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes.”
“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”
“Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of profound inspiration”

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