Quote by James Michener
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only t

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. – James Michener

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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. – James Michener

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Writing
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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. – James Michener

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Travel
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An age is called “dark,” not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it. – James Michener

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I always tell myself: You can do better than this. The best slogan I can think of to leave with the U.S.A. would be: We can do and we’ve got to do better than this. – Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991)

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Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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America

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. – Saul Bellow

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America

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. – Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. – George Orwell

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. – John Ruskin

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Success

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, It could be worse. It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better. – Mitt Romney

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. – Aristotle

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