"For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors."

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Source : "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project)". Book by Andrew Bacevich, 2008.

Andrew Bacevich

#Pursuit Of Happiness Quotes #Essence Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“Like everything, personal relationships and all that stuff is sort of put on ice while you go off to your location for five or six months. So, do I feel more settled in my life and in my work? Absolutely, yeah.”
“To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.”

Source : "Piłsudski: A Life For Poland". Book by Wacław Jędrzejewicz, 1982.
“People are never able to outperform their self-image.”
“I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.”
“America is a center right government, center right people. They want government but they don't want it to be excessive. They want it to be affordable. And most importantly what Americans want is to pass on to their next generation their children a country that's better, stronger and more vibrant and more prosperous.”

Source : "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. April 13, 2010.
“I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I think we all make our own families, whether they're comprised of blood relations or friends. Some people are lucky and love their families. Others aren't. But whom we spend time with is always a choice. Including our pets.”
“It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.”

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