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=The American Dream=



[|American Dream]

"The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This…is free labor--the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all." -Abraham Lincoln

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"In this first burst of triumph nothing seems impossible to anyone: not only are desirs boundless, but the power of satisfying them seems almost boundless, too." (de Tocqueville 779)

"All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation-- few contemplate these things upon a greater scale;" (de Tocqueville 778)



"Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty." -Ursula K. LeGuin

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