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Sarah Vowell Quote: “The same wakefulness the individual Calvinist was to use to keep watch over his own sins Winthrop and Cotton called for also in the group at large. This humility, this fear, was what kept their delusions of grandeur in check. That’s what subsequent generations lost. From New England’s Puritans we inherited the idea that America is blessed and ordained by God above all nations, but lost the fear of wrath and retribution.”

151. “The same wakefulness the individual Calvinist was to use to keep watch over his own sins Winthrop and Cotton called for also in the group at large. This humility, this fear, was what kept their delusions of grandeur in check. That’s what subsequent generations lost. From New England’s Puritans we inherited the idea that America is blessed and ordained by God above all nations, but lost the fear of wrath and retribution.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “And the Americans were told they were going to attack this heavily defended position with unloaded muskets, just with their fixed bayonets. It was a nighttime attack and they didn’t want to be shooting each other. They were commanded by that gentleman on your ten-dollar bill, Alexander Hamilton, the future secretary of the Treasury.”

152. “And the Americans were told they were going to attack this heavily defended position with unloaded muskets, just with their fixed bayonets. It was a nighttime attack and they didn’t want to be shooting each other. They were commanded by that gentleman on your ten-dollar bill, Alexander Hamilton, the future secretary of the Treasury.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “It is unfair of me to say so, but the slogan Booth shouted from the stage of Ford’s Theatre, the over-blown, self-important, pseudo-Shakespearean blather, being etched on the sign marking his death feels like the stamp of approval.”

153. “It is unfair of me to say so, but the slogan Booth shouted from the stage of Ford’s Theatre, the over-blown, self-important, pseudo-Shakespearean blather, being etched on the sign marking his death feels like the stamp of approval.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Convention is the day a person gives up on the human race.”

154. “I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Convention is the day a person gives up on the human race.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.”

155. “In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said “On the Road.” He smiled, said, “That was my favorite book at sixteen.” At the time, I thought he was patronizing me, that it was going to be my favorite book forever and ever, amen. But he was right. As an adult, I’m more of a Gatsby girl-more tragic, more sad, just as interested in what America costs as what it has to offer.”

156. “That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said “On the Road.” He smiled, said, “That was my favorite book at sixteen.” At the time, I thought he was patronizing me, that it was going to be my favorite book forever and ever, amen. But he was right. As an adult, I’m more of a Gatsby girl-more tragic, more sad, just as interested in what America costs as what it has to offer.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.”

157. “In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “One of the French officers was horrified that at a dinner in Washington’s tent, His Excellency served the meal not in a succession of courses like in civilization. Apparently Washington “gave, on the same plate, meat, vegetables, and salad.” On the same plate? Were these Americans people or animals?”

158. “One of the French officers was horrified that at a dinner in Washington’s tent, His Excellency served the meal not in a succession of courses like in civilization. Apparently Washington “gave, on the same plate, meat, vegetables, and salad.” On the same plate? Were these Americans people or animals?”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “He spent part of last year working in Canada, and I think it rubbed off on him, diminishing his innate American ability to celebrate the civic virtue of idiocy.”

159. “He spent part of last year working in Canada, and I think it rubbed off on him, diminishing his innate American ability to celebrate the civic virtue of idiocy.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.”

160. “The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “If we fail in our negotiation,” Greene told Lafayette en route to d’Estaing’s ship, “we shall at least get a good dinner.” Washington should have chosen Greene, not Sullivan, to steer this mission. Besides his cool head and personal interest in helping his home state, Greene understood that whatever their shortcomings, the French could always be counted on to roast the hell out of a chicken. Greene.”

161. “If we fail in our negotiation,” Greene told Lafayette en route to d’Estaing’s ship, “we shall at least get a good dinner.” Washington should have chosen Greene, not Sullivan, to steer this mission. Besides his cool head and personal interest in helping his home state, Greene understood that whatever their shortcomings, the French could always be counted on to roast the hell out of a chicken. Greene.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “There is a jarring disconnect between what I want my real-life intelligence officers to be doing versus what I want my fake TV intelligence officers to be doing.”

162. “There is a jarring disconnect between what I want my real-life intelligence officers to be doing versus what I want my fake TV intelligence officers to be doing.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “I am pro-plaque.”

163. “I am pro-plaque.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “I see plainly that America can defend herself if proper measures are taken,” he wrote, adding ominously, “and now I begin to fear she should be lost by herself and her own sons.” The.”

164. “I see plainly that America can defend herself if proper measures are taken,” he wrote, adding ominously, “and now I begin to fear she should be lost by herself and her own sons.” The.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “His pictures of this region summarize the soulful emptiness of a country where, as Gertrude Stein observed, ’there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.”

165. “His pictures of this region summarize the soulful emptiness of a country where, as Gertrude Stein observed, ’there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “Mutual Criticism required a member of the group to stand up in front of everybody and listen to the enumeration of his or her faults. The bright side of being that night’s subject for criticism was the rare treat at Oneida of being the center of attention. The downside was that everyone you knew and loved was allowed, even encouraged, to look into your eyes and ask, “You know what your problem is?”

166. “Mutual Criticism required a member of the group to stand up in front of everybody and listen to the enumeration of his or her faults. The bright side of being that night’s subject for criticism was the rare treat at Oneida of being the center of attention. The downside was that everyone you knew and loved was allowed, even encouraged, to look into your eyes and ask, “You know what your problem is?”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “Having studied art history, as opposed to political history, I tend to incorporate found objects into my books. Just as Pablo Picasso glued a fragment of furniture onto the canvas of Still Life with Chair Caning, I like to use whatever’s lying around to paint pictures of the past – traditional pigment like archival documents but also the added texture of whatever bits and bobs I learn from looking out bus windows or chatting up people I bump into on the road.”

167. “Having studied art history, as opposed to political history, I tend to incorporate found objects into my books. Just as Pablo Picasso glued a fragment of furniture onto the canvas of Still Life with Chair Caning, I like to use whatever’s lying around to paint pictures of the past – traditional pigment like archival documents but also the added texture of whatever bits and bobs I learn from looking out bus windows or chatting up people I bump into on the road.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “My audience is going to die before I do.”

168. “My audience is going to die before I do.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one’s opinions confirmed.”

169. “There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one’s opinions confirmed.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “One of the advantages to visiting historic sites as opposed to merely reading about them is the endearing glow of hometown pride.”

170. “One of the advantages to visiting historic sites as opposed to merely reading about them is the endearing glow of hometown pride.”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “One of the slight variances between the Stalwarts and their fellow Republicans the Half-Breeds is that the Half-Breeds, partly out of frustration with the Civil War sainthood of Grant, were clean-shirt guys more interested in stumping for mild civil service reform – a platform whose merit would make for a less stirring campaign song. A bureaucrat should pass a test, hurrah, hurrah!”

171. “One of the slight variances between the Stalwarts and their fellow Republicans the Half-Breeds is that the Half-Breeds, partly out of frustration with the Civil War sainthood of Grant, were clean-shirt guys more interested in stumping for mild civil service reform – a platform whose merit would make for a less stirring campaign song. A bureaucrat should pass a test, hurrah, hurrah!”

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Sarah Vowell Quote: “For the better part of the 1990s, it seemed like the only Americans who publicly described themselves as patriots were scary militia types hiding out in the backwoods of Michigan and Montana, cleaning their guns.”

172. “For the better part of the 1990s, it seemed like the only Americans who publicly described themselves as patriots were scary militia types hiding out in the backwoods of Michigan and Montana, cleaning their guns.”

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