Bill Bryson  - Quotes

 When you grow up in middle America you are inculcated from the earliest age with the belief - no, the understanding - that America is the richest and most powerful nation on earth because God likes us best. It has the most perfect form of government, the most exciting sporting events, the tastiest food and amplest portions, the largest cars, the cheapest gasoline, the most abundant natural resources, the most productive farms, the most devastating nuclear arsenal and the friendliest, most decent and most patriotic folks on Earth. Countries just don't come any better. So why anyone would want to live anywhere else is practically incomprehensible. In a foreigner it is puzzling; in a native it is seditious. I used to feel this way myself. 

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy  - Quotes

 No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. 

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C.S. Lewis  - Quotes

 The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is  

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