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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. – John Updike

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. – William Ralph

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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. – Charles Luckman

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America

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James

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America is a mistake, a giant mistake. – Sigmund Freud

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. – George Orwell

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Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. – William Gibson

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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. – David Rockefeller

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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are. – Mason Cooley

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