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• My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance.
  It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor....
• No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.
  Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency....
• Water on the mountain: The image of Obstruction. Thus the superior man turns his attention to himself And molds his character.
• It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his natio
  hat the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole....
• A mans character is his destiny. -- Heraclitu
• A man's character is his fate. Heraclitu
• His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 283
• A spring wells up at the foot of the mountain: The image of Youth.
  Thus the superior man fosters his character By thoroughness in all that he does....
• No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam
  but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine....