#mer

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream. ↗

— Jonathan Culver

#army #failure #soldiers #united-states #usa

Are you ready to take the ACT on Saturday?" my father asked. Did chickens enjoy being put on trucks labeled KFC? "Sure. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#father

The eternal raison d'etre of America is in its being the "sweet land of liberty". Should a land so dreamed into existence, so degenerate through material prosperity as to become what its European critics, with too much justice, have scornfully renamed it the "Land of the Dollar" - such a development will be one of the sorriest conclusions of history, and the most colossal disillusionment that has ever happened to mankind. ↗

— Frank Norris

#dreams

I'm saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That's all I'm saying. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#united-states #dreams

Really, nobody was there?” I asked. “Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#city #downtown #dreaming #dreams #glasses

the Reagan years "produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history....The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent...while the income of those in the top one percent rose by 87.1 percent." Chain Reaction, 23 ↗

— Thomas B. Edsall

#justice #dreams

Hope is a dream of which we long to have. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't hope for something because hope brings joy and joy brings happiness and its all tied up in a big ball of love. ↗

— Peace Gypsy

#dreams #happiness #love #peace #dreams

Baby carrots are making me gay. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#america

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization. ↗

— W.E.B. Du Bois

#civilization #education #education

A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of a stick! It makes me tired. ↗

— T.H. White

#merlyn #the-once-and-future-king #education