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“America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.”

Facts America Political Social Information Materials Resources Determine Accepted Political Power

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.”

Believe May Able America Found Sound Common Raised Divorce Accepted Ridiculous Over It Equations

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“I lived in England for a long time, and even the English didn't think me as one of theirs. In America I'm not really accepted. In New Zealand now, I don't think they even think of me as a New Zealander.”

Thinking Long America Long Time England Accepted Think Of Me New Zealand

Author:Andrew Niccol

“I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake. So I will close with another confession. Frequently, along the tortuous road of recent months from this chamber to the Presidents House, I protested that I was my own man. Now I realize that I was wrong. I am your man, for it was your carefully weighed confirmation that changed my occupation. The truth is I am the peoples man, for you acted in their name, and I accepted and began my new and solemn trust with a promise to serve all the people and do the best that I can for America.”

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.”

Years Two Done Jobs America Teach Teacher Math Accepted Two Years Math Teacher

Author:Chris Baio

“I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.”

Writing Years Firsts Children Two Book Wanted America Mines Accepted Nine Rejected Publishers April Publication Enchanted Nine Years Children's Books Picture Books

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.”

Would Be America Brain Nice Return Politician Accepted Stomach Being Nice Arena Diminishing Returns

Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.”

Knows Years Able America Past Time Fall Speak Language Hours Happened Century Events Flower Speech Ordinary China Accepted Related Passages Scholar Leafs Grammar Incidents Tense Dynasty Immediacy

Author:Nora Waln