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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

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bored #fact #get #land #opportunity

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#nationalist #other #pride #self-respect #substitute

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#circumstances #color #content #crystal #greatly

I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover. ↗

— Uday Hussein

#am #body #conduct #doctors #french

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#century #claims #clarified #concept #deal

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#silence #speech #variously

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#absolutely free #constitutes #dimensions #divine #free