Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.
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Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Eternity eludes us, even as a thought. MASON COOLEY Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond ... GEORGE W. BUSH What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? WILLIAM OSLER To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. 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ROSEN when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way... CATHERINE LACEY I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's n... CHARLES DE LINT America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big tee... ABIODUN OYEWOLE I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN Steve meant the world to us. Jack said, 'It doesn't seem fair. Steve should have been able grow old ... LINDA KNOUSE It started to upset us because we realized what (conventional) farmers are feeding America. Eventual... MARTHA JEAN I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm ... DAVID LEVITHAN I was probably pretty frustrating to work with, because if I ever did anything wrong, I would just s... SHANNON MILLER Americans have this habit of bragging about the US being a democracy, but they seem to want to do... BOBBY W. MILLER When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or b... NOAH FELDMAN I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage ha... BRUCE VILANCH Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. DR. 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Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery? TATYANA ALI In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by Ameri... ROMANO PRODI To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN Egotism eludes serenity, Selflessness attracts it ASHISH SOPHAT People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist... RAND PAUL I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo... CONSTANCE WU It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They ... ANDY WARHOL The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, de... ROBERT DALLEK It shows America in a way that the world needs to see it right now ... and a way that America needs ... ORLANDO BLOOM Let's put it this way, America has been good to us. 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PAULO FREIRE None of us had ever been anywhere before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty... MARK TWAIN The game is meant to be fun. JACK NICKLAUS America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th... GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deser... JERRY FALWELL This is a profligate prison for us all, it's a hellish hole we soldiers have been hauled to because ... TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in DEAN RUSK We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. JOHN CAGE The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact... HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR. There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free. JACKIE ROBINSON Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with coura... GEORGE W. BUSH And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'I... MITT ROMNEY What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed lik... CAREY MULLIGAN America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the B... ISABEL WILKERSON Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. OVID As I have often said publicly, the shuttle is the most amazing machine humans have ever built, and i... 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