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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
State of the Union, 20-01-2004 -
America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
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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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Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
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An ''unemployed'' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
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An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
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An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.
The Causes of World War Three (1960) -
An intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.
On War (1832) -
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
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