#ambivalent

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. ↗

— Elia Kazan

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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. ↗

— Vernon A. Walters

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