It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the Americ… — Henry Miller

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

Henry MillerAuthor · American · 1891 – 1980

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The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me. — William Westmoreland
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo
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