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“There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.”

People Firsts Reason America Spirit Possibility East Something New Openness Stem Coast East Coast Pioneering Pioneering Spirit

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.”

Hard Kids America Spirit Doors Hard Work Grandkids

Author:Joe Kyrillos

“MEN WALK ON THE MOON. To me, this speaks of a time when America wasn't just about the almighty buck. The Russians had put up Sputnik, and the U.S. would not be outdone. I admire that about the American spirit. There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.”

Men Firsts America Spirit Speak Walks Moon Admire Spots Almighty Bucks American Spirit Sputnik

Author:Nathan Fillion

“President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.”

War Ends America Spirit Belief President Democracy Cold Optimism Ultimate Triumph Willingness Phases Cold War Brighter His Smile President Reagan

Author:Colin Powell

“I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.”

People Knows America Spirit Energy Technology Competition Welcome Enterprise Ingenuity

Author:George H. W. Bush

“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.”

“Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness - to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.”

America Spirit Determined Selfishness Preserves Expenses Globes Laboratory Separating Isolationism

Book:The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.”

People Trying Stories America Spirit Simple Impossible Generations Ready Creeds Odds Unlikely Not Ready Yes We Can Impossible Odds

Book:Change We Can Believe In

Source: Change We Can Believe In

“Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.”

Inspiration Able America Spirit Liberty Century Civilization Equal Europe Productivity Marvelous Magician North America

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.”

“The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.”

People Different Seems America Spirit Difficult Team Buddhism Harder Harmony West East Conditioning Monasteries

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think the spirit of America, one American wanting to make another American's life better, or internationally our desire to see countries do better, or people in countries do better, coming from this concept of volunteerism is a very valid and important part of our internal being.”

People Thinking Important Country America Spirit Desire Concepts Internals Volunteerism

Author:George H. W. Bush

“My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.”

Thinking World Has Beens Kids America Spirit Next Sports Goal Careers Hopefully Honour Racing Olympics Asia Looking Forward Korea Ambassadors Skis Ski Racing

Author:Lindsey Vonn

“Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?”

People Ifs Soul Character Body America Spirit Loses Quality Materials Forests Material Things Rebuilding

Book:Timber in Your Life

Source: Timber in Your Life

“Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.”

Long America Spirit Endure Rome

Author:David Starr Jordan

“The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.”

America Spirit Western

Book:Israel Potter: Works of Melville

Source: Israel Potter: Works of Melville

“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”