Quote by Eric Liu
Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a nat

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room. – Eric Liu

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The Purpose-Driven Life is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. – Eric Liu

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True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We dont expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. – Eric Liu

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We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. – Eric Liu

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If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, thats fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldnt! They shouldnt read my work! – Joyce Maynard

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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. – Aldous Huxley

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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on Madden. – Billie Joe Armstrong

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Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. – John Keats

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It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had. – James Bovard

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How many times can you subtract 7 from 83, and what is left afterwards? You can subtract it as many times as you want, and it leaves 76 every time. – Author Unknown

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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. – E. J. Hobsbawm

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx

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