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| Nothing is cuz it is; it is cuz we make it so | Whoever names things is the one in power | "Victory over things apparently impossible" (Columbus) | If it's there, take it (Columbus) | Beware of monsters!(Columbus) | We will be a "shining city on a hill" (Winthrop) | "Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with God" (Winthrop) |
| We are like the Israelites--wanderers (Winthrop) | "We are in covenant with God" (Winthrop) | If we don't stick to our ideals, we're screwed (Winthrop) | Commission (Winthrop) | "We must be knit together as one man" (Bradford) | This land is vast & furious, wild & savage, dark & unknown (Bradford) | I will survive! (Bradford) |
| True Americans aren't afraid to wipe each others' butts (Bradford) | "We're all in this together (High School "Musical) | Beware of witches! (Salem) | Great Awakenings (Edwards) | Conversion, or a "change of heart" (Edwards) | "A state of new" (Edwards) | We can create and control our own destiny (Enlightenment) |
| Self-made man, self-improvement, self-mastery (Enlightenment) | Renaissance man (Franklin) | Spirituality (Puritanism) vs. Utilitarianism ((Enlightenment) | Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (Jefferson) | "Inalienable rights" (Jefferson) | "These are times that try men's souls" (Paine) | We have no more princes...we have an Alma Mater (de Crevecoeur) |
| "I am a transparent eyeball" (Emerson) | Self-reliance (Emerson) | The establishment (the "Party of Memory") vs. the movement (the "Party of Hope") (Emerson) | "The redemption [of man] is lodged in the herat of youth" (Emerson) | "Each age must write its own books" (Emerson) | "There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful" (Emerson) | |
| Everyone deserves an "original relation to the universe" (Emerson) | Live deliberately, suck the marrow out of life, put to rout all that's not life (Thoreau) | 10' x 15' (dimensions of Thoreau's cabin) | Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! (Thoreau) | Americans have become like ants and blind cave fish (Thoreau) | Dig, dig, dig for the truth! (Thoreau) | |
| "I celebrate myself, and sing myself... every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you" (Whitman) | "I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" (Whitman) | "Creeds and schools at abeyance...Nature without check with original energy" (Whitman) | "I am made to be in contact with it [the atmosphere]" (Whitman) | "Urge and urge and urge, always the procreant urge of the world...always sex" (Whitman) | Everything about our body is beautiful (Whitman) | We need to metaphorize our world, which leads to thinking, sympathy, empathy, justice, and change ( Whitman) |
| We need to project ourselves, with our imagination, into the shoes of other people (Whitman) | A white man can marry a "red girl" and a white man and a runaway slave can sit at the same table (Whitman) | "This is what you shall do: Stand up for the stupid crazy...take your hat off to no man or number of men...and your very flesh will become a great poem" (Whitman) | ||||
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