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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#america #any #being #enlightened #faults

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#life #merely #necessary

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#i #myself #never #new #new york

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#am #american #american president #coming #different

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#company #developed #during #electrical #i

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. ↗

— Alice Koller

#achievement #alone #aware #because #being

The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials. ↗

— Carrot Top

#because #blessing #commercials #everyone #i

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#better #customers #front #i #improvise

There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live. ↗

— Rip Torn

#america #difference #history #kind #live

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#around #art #based #commercial #commercial world