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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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My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. – Eric Liu

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Heres a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test. – Eric Liu

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Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the 04 elections is that politics is a word game. – Eric Liu

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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. – E. M. Forster

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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. – Joseph Campbell

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Ive had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. Youve got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you dont cut. – Ethan Hawke

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My kids will grow up in a house knowing that its perfectly normal for two men to be in love, its perfectly normal for two women to be in love. My kids will grow up knowing its all about love. It doesnt matter who youre with and everyone should have that experience. – Tori Spelling

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. – Plato

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Do you suppose that your beard creates brains and therefore you grow that fly-flapper? Take my advice and shave it off at once; for that beard is a creator of lice and not of brains. – Ammianus (2nd century A.D.), in The Greek Anthology, Volume IV, “Book XI: The Co

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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. – Wilson Mizner

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