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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


#became #become #citizens #citizenship #conference

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.


Eric Liu


#around #articles #asked #black #black and white

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.


Penelope Lively


#eternally #grateful #grew #i #james

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.


Edward Livingston


#been #brought #close #conduct #ever

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.


Titus Livius


#defended #ever #grounds #rational

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.


George Lloyd


#ancient greeks #greeks #knack #myths #truths

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.


Seth Lloyd


#able #being #complicated #complicated things #famous

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.


Gary Locke


#citizens #class #country #done #economic

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.


Gary Locke


#american #brands #china #class #contrast

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.


John Locke


#fewer #great #ideas #only #our






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