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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Pierre Trudeau

On relations between Canada and the US.

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Trudeau, Pierre. Speech at National Press Club. National Press Club meeting. 25 Mar. 1969, Washington, DC, USA.

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North American civilization is one of the ugliest to have emerged in human history, and it has engulfed the world. Asphalt and exhaust fumes clog the villages... This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... The inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the globe.

Arthur Charles Erickson

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Erickson, Arthur Charles. Speech recieving an honorary university degree, LL.D. (Honoris Causa). 1973, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

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The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us... The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 1.

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Our country abounds in the necessaries, the arts, and the comforts of life. A general prosperity is visible in the public countenance.

James Madison

Second Inaugural Address of James Madison

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Madison, James. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1813, House Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

Thomas Paine

The American Crisis

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Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 1. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1776.

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Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

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