James Truslow Adams

"Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter."

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Source: James Truslow Adams (2017). “The Epic of America”, p.262, Routledge

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James Truslow Adams

James Truslow Adams

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James Truslow Adams was an American writer and historian, best known for coining the term 'American Dream' in his book 'The Epic of America.'

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"The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement."

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"Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."

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