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“Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.”

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Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 - February 11, 1848) was an American painter considered one of the pioneers of American landscape art. Known for his grandiose depictions of natural landscapes, Cole's works often featured the majestic scenery of the American continent, infused with elements of Romanticism and symbolism. more

“Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.”

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.”

Long Has Beens Real Values Health Scientist Defined Chemicals Long Ago Units Precise Pills Vitamins Intangible

Author:Florence King

“We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.”

Want Government President Differences Nice Policy Connections Intention Innocent Gaps Conception Foreign Policy Naive Tourists Goofy Nice Guy

Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

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