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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

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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail. ↗

— Ed Koch

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

— Kenneth Koch

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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

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For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth. ↗

— Robert Kocharian

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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

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But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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

— Rip Torn

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists. ↗

— Willem de Kooning

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When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together. ↗

— Jeff Koons

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