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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Born:
August 2, 1949
(age 75)
Bio:
James Mackenzie Fallows is an American writer and journalist.
Known for:
China Airborne (2012)
Blind Into Baghdad (2006)
Postcards from Tomorrow Square (2009)
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