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There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.


George Hickenlooper


#age #avarice #became #civic #contributed

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.


Barry Humphries


#business #contemporaries #destiny #entered #logical

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.


James Tobin


#columbia #columbia university #days #entered #i

I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.


Paul Kane


#competition #entered #fiction #game #given

After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.


Janis Karpinski


#capture #centered #false #false sense #find

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.


Chris Kattan


#calmed #centered #down #friends #get

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.


Alveda King


#believing #certain #corrupts #falsehood #fully

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.


Henry A. Kissinger


#consumes #create #decision #decision making #decisions

Life is to be entered upon with courage.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#entered #life #upon

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


#art #bay #care #cunning #dart