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(Posted January 2008)

AMERICA IS ...

a place where you can hope for a better life.


HOPE

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."
                    — Helen Keller, deaf-blind author and humanitarian

"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions."
                    — Ben Stein, American writer and actor

 
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