"We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account."

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Source : "Patriotism and Michelle Obama: A 4th of July Reflection" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2008.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Country Quotes #Pride Quotes #Done Quotes

“I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.”
“The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low passes. We often had to wade through swift running ice-cold brooks. It has long since we had seen a glacier, but as we were approaching the tasam at Barka, a chain of glaciers gleaming in the sunshine came into view. The landscape was dominated by the 25,000-foot peak of Gurla Mandhata; less striking, but far more famous, was the sacred Mount Kailash, 3,000 feet lower, which stands in majestic isolation apart from the Himalayan range.”
“Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so vital to the labor and civil rights of this country, and yet it was dying and didn't see it, except for some sociologist at Wayne State University who predicted that Detroit was losing population by a half-million by the end of that '60s decade, and that that trend would continue taking away its tax base.”

Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
“A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.”

Source : Smiley Blanton (1956). “Love or perish”
“Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.”
“Music is the framework around the silence.”
“Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.”
“It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.”

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