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One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.
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To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.
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One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.
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The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
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Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?
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No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.