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In most countries in the world, your fate and your identity are handed to you; in America, you determine them for yourself. America is a country where you get to write the script of your own life. Your life is like a blank sheet of paper, and you are the artist.

— Dinesh D'Souza What's So Great About America (2003)

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Americans are the friendliest people you will encounter, but they have few friends.

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Strictly speaking, relativism does not permit social progress, because the new culture is by definition no better than the one it replaced.

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Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed—only when it is chosen.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

Racism originated not in ignorance and fear but as part of an enlightened enterprise of intellectual discovery.

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