It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Alain De Botton
Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
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Roy T. Bennett
Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.
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Roy T. Bennett
Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.
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Roy T. Bennett
A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
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Sophie Kinsella
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More history than ever is today being revised or invented by people who do not want the real past, but only a past that suits their purpose. Today is the great age of historical mythology. The defence of history by its professionals is today more...
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There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our economy on the biosphere and the imperatives of a capitalist market: maximum continuing growth in the search for profit.
