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Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norma

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. – James Wolcott

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On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a Restoring Honor revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis. – James Wolcott

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High expectations werent nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then – children werent fawned over from an early age as gifted and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. – James Wolcott

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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. – James Wolcott

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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. – William Penn

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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. – Richard Linklater

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Creativity is always a leap of faith. Youre faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage. – Julia Cameron

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. – William James

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One good thing can be said for inflation: without it there would be no football. – Marty Ragaway

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The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people. – Eamon de Valera

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My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak. – Adelbert von Chamisso

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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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