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"America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black."
"The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead."
"The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are."
"The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history."
"The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight."
"No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating."
"The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice."
"American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe."
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