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Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.


Stafford Cripps


#clash #exacerbate #feeling #forces #inevitable

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.


Stafford Cripps


#british #british people #decide #determined #i

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.


David Cronenberg


#always #been #course #difficult #disappearing

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.


Herbert Croly


#atlantic ocean #been #had #land #never

Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.


Herbert Croly


#added #always #american #associated #been

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.


Herbert Croly


#american #benefits #citizens #civilization #economic

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.


Herbert Croly


#combines #hand #higher #historical #ideal

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.


Herbert Croly


#actual #adequate #american #american life #aspiration

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.


Herbert Croly


#determined #fruitful #ideal #individual #life

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.


Herbert Croly


#america #american #american life #been #consisted






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